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10 years ago or so the story was the opposite: economic progress will lead to a rising middle class, which will lead to more political freedoms.
by phreeza 8y ago
10 years ago or so the story was the opposite: economic progress will lead to a rising middle class, which will lead to more political freedoms.
- pm90 8y agoThat’s exactly how it panned out in Korea, Vietnam etc. China is an outlier because of several reasons but size is perhaps the biggest. Chinese market is so huge it can support China specific versions of everything; the State realized this and used it to effectively control all the new sources of information (mostly internet stuff). No one thought they could do that effectively but hats off to them they did.
- throwaway2048 8y agoNot sure why this is being downvoted, It was absolutely the case being made for why we should be economically involved in China, however it turned out to be dead wrong. https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2007/08/31/capitalism-and-democracytake-two https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2007/08/31/capitalis...
- Farradfahren 8y agoDoesent fit well in that Neo-Liberal Leaf of a ideology, that they basically brought their own version of the third reich to power. They are in that phase any good communist was at the start of the cold war. The Ideology is all right, but the implementation is flawed and thuse the various atrocities cant be put on their tab.