Veteran Chinese 'revolutionary' leader Deng Liqun (1915-2015) died at 4.56 pm on February 10, 2015, at the age of 100, in Beijing.
A close friend and regular bridge-playing partner of Deng Xiaoping, Deng Liqun was an orthodox Marxist ideologue and former Party Propaganda Chief and theoretician. In his obituary, the Chinese Communist Party described him as “an excellent Party member, a time-tested and loyal communist soldier, a proletarian revolutionist, an outstanding leader in the party’s ideological and theoretical publicity work, and a Marxist theorist”.
(Comment: Deng Liqun, also called “little Deng” to distinguish him from Deng Xiaoping, was the principal architect of the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign in 1983, which essentially targeted liberal intellectuals and artists, and the Anti-Bourgeois Liberalisation Campaign in 1987, which targeted reformers.)
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