This was one of the main lessons learned by the CPC after it emerged from the cultural revolution and the reign of the gang of four, who ruled by those same catholic methods… lessons the MLMs and Hoxhaists have to completely ignore given the success of the PRC’s opening up or Vietnams Doi Moi reforms.

Deng inaugurated a period of great scientific creativity and curiosity; people were free to try new things, experiment with marxist solutions to technology growth and poverty alleviation, etc.

Some good articles from Deng on this:

• https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/carry-out-the-policy-of-opening-to-the-outside-world-and-learn-advanced-science-and-technology-from-other-countries/
• https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/realize-the-four-modernizations-and-never-seek-hegemony/
• https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/we-can-develop-a-market-economy-under-socialism/