At some point the southern provinces will reject the unrelenting demands of communism and align with Hong Kong. And in business terms, Hong Kong will have accomplished a reverse takeover of Beijing. As part of another global wave of reform
So that there is no confusion about terms, there is a description from physics of an authoritarian system: “That which is not compulsory is prohibited”. Wonderfully elegant and it covers everything right down to school boards. From communism to today’s corruption of liberalism, socialists in all parties have trended authoritarian.
We have seen Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History”. Published in 1992, it essentially reviewed that with the end of the Cold War liberal democracies would be the final form of government for all nations. While hopeful, realization seems hopeless. As the ideals of liberal and limited government have been trashed by an extraordinary mania to “manage” the temperature of the nearest planet. Of course, this is just a front for control freaks to impose their will. Indeed, this seems to have been anticipated by “The End of Liberalism”. Published in 1969 by political scientist Theodore J. Lowi, the theme was that classical liberalism and free-market economies had been replaced by “interest group liberalism”.