>The Chinese state can hardly be accused of maintaining the status
>quo, which in China is a rural peasant society.
I don't think that's what paartha is saying:
> > State is always a conservative status
> > quoist apparatus..it needs to be
> > driven/controlled by .. .in China it appears the party is doing that
> > job
I think this means the opposite of what you read.
I had to read what paartha wrote a few times before I thought I understood it, so it is maybe a little convoluted. But there seems to be a lot of shoot first ask questions later going on in this neck of the web lately.