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"We no longer know what socialism is, or how to get there, and yet it remains the goal."

— Deng Xiaoping

January 1, 1970

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First attributed to Deng by McKenzie Wark, who was actually paraphrasing a similar sentence by him from a talk with Alfonso Guerra in 1987: "Our basic goal — to build socialism — is correct, but we are still trying to figure out what socialism is and how to build it".

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First attributed to Deng by McKenzie Wark, who was actually paraphrasing a similar sentence by him from a talk with Alfonso Guerra in 1987: "Our basic goal — to build socialism — is correct, but we are still trying to figure out what socialism is and how to build it".