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it did a lot of harm before the party leaders learned how to control it and it led to occupy wall street style protests in the late 80's which included the tiannamen square protest.
that event forced the party to devise ways to neuter the harmful aspects of capitalism that were taking root in the country because of deng's reforms and it's been a continuous try/fail effort ever since.