Class warfare was ready to boil over in China since the fall of the last Manchu ruler and first Republic in 1911. It serves as a lesson to all nations on what happens when a few rich people run an entire nation. Obviously the Communist are anti rich and once they seize power they will go after them, but the anger of the peasants at the rich in China is also genuine. Dominant local families during KMT actually ran many local provinces. Many even had their own armies, imposed taxes, shut out all competitors, bribed KMT officials, loaned money to peasants that they knew they cannot repay and ended up creating indentured servants out of them. Their adult children can wander about and do almost anything with little or no legal consequences. When the Communist took over, all they had to do is unleash this resevoir of anger. (People in government and Wall Street bankstas should take note, screwing Main Street will have consequences). Here is the biggest irony for the Communist Chinese, today their Communist local officials and their family members are acting like the spoil thugs/brats of the warlords they punished. Must be a Chinese thing.
“anger of the peasants at the rich in China is also genuine”
Exactly. The biggest problem with the Chinese government is that it was so isolated and relied on frequently easily manipulated emperors. I mean, concubines were known to get their claws into the emperors and drain the national treasury through demanding expensive gifts. All of them lived in four square miles of a city that cut them off even from the immediate city.
“When the Communist took over, all they had to do is unleash this resevoir of anger. (People in government and Wall Street bankstas should take note, screwing Main Street will have consequences). “
Of course. I can easily see people getting pushed and then every single exec who ripped people off getting dragged out. I don’t know if anyone knows this, but right before Enron there was a similar scandal in China. The guilty ones got either life in prison or executed. That is how these things should be hnadled.