Mao had complained to his nephew that Deng's linking of Mao's “three directives” (to resist revisionism, encourage unity and stability, and boost the national economy) had neither been cleared by the Politburo nor reported to Mao. Mao had also protested that Deng's use of the “white cat, black cat theory” (“it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches the mouse”) did not make any distinction between imperialism and Marxism-Leninism; it reflected bourgeois thinking. Zhang Chunqiao chimed in that Deng was a representative of the monopoly capitalist class and that he was a
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