If we had taken the capitalist road, we could not have put an end to the chaos in the country or done away with poverty and backwardness.
The reason some people hesitate to carry out the reform and the open policy and dare not break new ground is, in essence, that they're afraid it would mean introducing too many elements of capitalism and, indeed, taking the capitalist road.
History has proved that in China, or other reformist capitalist road is not feasible.
If China, with its one billion people, took the capitalist road, it would be a disaster for the world. It would be a retrogression of history, a retrogression of many years.
You must not think that if we have some market economy we shall be taking the capitalist road.
In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party".
I was also doing some small business while studying at the university, so I was labelled "a re-seller of taking capitalist road" which had a negative meaning at that time.
Mutterings among some of the neighbors about wicked "capitalist roaders" soon died down.
