Dengism’s greatest intellectual failure is its inability to account for the potential of unchecked power to nurture greed and corruption among ruling elites. Its greatest political failure is its resistance to the democratic reforms needed to constrain that power.
邓小平理论的最大理论缺陷在于它没有考虑到不受管制的权力会在执政精英中间引起如此程度的贪婪和腐败。其最大的政治失败在于它拒绝约束权力所需要的民主改革。