Deng supported limited capitalist reforms; Mao did not support any form of capitalism.
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician who was a major leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until he retired in 1992. Following Chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng ruled China through far-reaching market-economy reforms.
Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founding father of the People's Republic of China.