so, he's suggesting the "liberal success story" - redistributive processes create a middle class, which pushes for further reforms. interesting that the activist sounds like the upper class liberal, and the profs sound like the working class marxists. maybe those class associations are more real than may be immediately obvious.

i'll admit that the narrative works well as a synthesis of the competing media stories, but that doesn't suddenly make hegelianism scientific. and i've never really been one to actually buy that liberal narrative.

it's interesting to hear a different perspective, though. all these perspectives have aspcts of truth. but i'm not quite convinced by this one.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11500

the "liberal success story" is today most often trotted out to provide projections for future chinese revolts.