Actually, the population of China is about 60% peasant.
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, dredmond at efn.org <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
>
> A small detail called "colonialism". Those teeming peasant
> masses of yore
> are now cellphone-using, TV-watching city-dwellers, living
> in independent
> states. Neoliberalism tried to keep them in check with
> structural
> adjustment and debt peonage; they fought back via delinking
> and forex
> accumulation.
>