1. Nobody is threatening the sovereignty of China with these protests. Nobody seems to want the PRC to disintegrate or to have it partitioned.
2. One country, two systems is the best that the Communist Party of China could have gotten in 1997. The alternatives would have been either to maintain colonial rule, turn Hong Kong over to the Republic of China, or to grant the city independence.
3. Nobody among the protesters seems to want to impose the Hong Kong political system upon the whole of China, even if such would be an improvement for the political life of most Chinese.
The Chinese Communist Party abandoned Marxist economics without abandoning the dictatorship.
2. One country, two systems is the best that the Communist Party of China could have gotten in 1997. The alternatives would have been either to maintain colonial rule, turn Hong Kong over to the Republic of China, or to grant the city independence.
3. Nobody among the protesters seems to want to impose the Hong Kong political system upon the whole of China, even if such would be an improvement for the political life of most Chinese.
The Chinese Communist Party abandoned Marxist economics without abandoning the dictatorship.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
