In this recent blog over at George Mason Universisty's, History News Network Professor Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom asks "Why Arene't We Seeing the End of the Communist Party in China?
Professor Wasserstrom argues, quite successfully, that the Chinese Government can find several reasons to suggest to the Chinese that things should remain the way they are.
In a speech titled Economic Freedom, Human Freedom, Political Freedom Milton Friedman had this to say:
"Historical evidence speaks with a single voice on the relation between political freedom and a free market. I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity" (p. 9). I went on to point out that "History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition" (p. 10).
Read the entire speech by Dr. Friedman by clicking here...
My opinion? I tend to agree that little will change in the near term. But one can hope that as the Chinese people get more freedom, they will demand more freedom.
