Another Chinese revolution?
We can only hope and pray that this time the Chinese people get it right and have true freedom.
Another Chinese crackdown in the making. :') China's never had a revolution, it's only had a civil war, and the result was the replacement of an illiberal democracy with a single party state dictatorship, which has endured to this day. My Marxist brother-in-law said, after Tienamen (sp?) square, that the fact that such a large demonstration could take place -- 40 years after the supposed revolution -- showed that the Chinese had not had a people's revolution. :') And he added, "they're finished" (meaning Mao's successors).
Read about China during the 1930's under the KMT. There were statistical improvements in idustrialization, education, standard of living in the cities, despite the corruption and nepotism in the KMT government. Disparity between the poor in the rural areas (90 percent) and growing middle class in the cities (10 percent) gave the Communist an issue to agitate the rural poor. Today we have a similiar situation, the cities modernized and grew more affluent while the poor is getting poorer because the new rich classes in the cities past laws to shut out any new comers and started to form corporations which crushed any new small businesses from expanding. These new corporations are being runned by children of Communist officials and future promotions are reserved for them. If your kids did not go to Youth School, they will not be the first to attend the good universities and be the first in line for good corporate jobs and promotion opportunities. I think China is heading for another revolution.