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I believe the class struggle that you are suggesting is not so clear-cut here in China. Most Chinese I know work in the city and have their parents in the count
by felipe 17y ago
I believe the class struggle that you are suggesting is not so clear-cut here in China. Most Chinese I know work in the city and have their parents in the country-side. So, the "middle-class" that we normally talk about is the sons and daughters, and the "peasants" are their parents. They are not going to revolt among each other.
Their situation improved hugely from what it was 20 or 30 years ago. They went through hell during all these decades, so they built up such resilience that I don't think that they will revolt simply because they cannot get a job right now.
Also, the Cultural Revolution is still fresh on people's memory (even though no one talks about it). That was a "class-struggle" revolution (supposedly), and I don't think they would want to get back to that time, even if the gap between rich and poor keeps widening.
- conover 17y agoI agree that there is almost certainly not going to be some mass revolt but people are generally unhappy when they don't have jobs (as evidenced by the current political climate in the U.S.). My only point is that a significant portion of the economy is based on exports for which demand has dropped and may never return. Will domestic demand fill in that gap? From what I've read, that seems unlikely. The government is going to have to maybe shift their economic strategy to cope with this fact.