What about Mao?

Chinese Officials Seek to Pump Up the Party by Edward Cody:

As China moves ever more deeply into a free-market economy, the ruling Communist Party has decided to launch an 18-month campaign to reinvigorate socialist ideology and strengthen the party's leading role in society...

"Their ideas about socialism and communism have become shaky, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union," said Huang Weiding, deputy editor at the party's Red Flag Publishing House. "Some of them no longer believe it is appropriate for China."

On the one hand, the playing field for free enterprise has greatly expanded in the past two decades, to the point that private business generates more than half of the $1.4 trillion gross domestic product...

The campaign will take the form of study and self-criticism sessions in ministries, bureaucracies, schools and factories across the country. Zhen said central to these reflections would be the theories of Deng Xiaoping, China's former leader who opened the country to the world and declared free-market economics a legitimate part of socialism. Also in the curriculum, she said, will be the thoughts of Jiang Zemin, the former president and party leader whose "three represents" idea suggested the party should embrace leading-edge knowledge, culture and entrepreneurship as well as workers and peasants.

The theories put forward by Deng and Jiang will be used to explain why Communism remains a valid philosophy as the government permits increased free-market enterprise and promises its citizens some form of democracy.

Good luck with that.