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How should this be contrasted with Tiananmen Square? Was that a “shift” towards a more capitalist system?
by bluejekyll 7y ago
How should this be contrasted with Tiananmen Square? Was that a “shift” towards a more capitalist system?
- 420codebro 7y agoLmao no doubt the chongs started stealing shit around that time.
- andrekandre 7y agotiananmen square protests were originally protesting that very transition toward a more capitalist-like system in china and growing anxiety toward it and the communist party’s apparent inability to handle it well; hence the push for democracy (not necessarily the liberal western democracy most would imagine) [1]http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests in both cases maybe you could say students were protesting what they saw as corruption and a corrupt system and to save what they felt was the ideal that they grew up with (democratic socialism in china, liberal democracy in hongkong)? [edit] formatting links