When a government drastically restricts economic freedoms and then restricts them less than they did, you shouldn't praise that government for causing the incre

When a government drastically restricts economic freedoms and then restricts them less than they did, you shouldn't praise that government for causing the increased prosperity that results -- it was their fault it wasn't happening in the first place, and they "helped" by getting out of the way. Sure, you can say the Deng Xiaoping CCP isn't the same as Mao's CCP, and there are aspects of that which are true. But at most, Deng's CCP was simply reducing the drastic limits on economic freedoms that the party had put in place. They're not causing the prosperity -- they're declining to continue stopping that prosperity from happening.