tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post8079927699073751736..comments2023-10-25T08:46:20.242-05:00Comments on The Distributist Review: RED CHINESE POOR RIOT OVER FORCED ABORTIONSJohn Médaillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16463267750952578888noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-40427569102977898522007-05-24T11:15:00.000-05:002007-05-24T11:15:00.000-05:00I spent a couple months in southwest China in 2005...I spent a couple months in southwest China in 2005, and while there spent most of my time at a rural university attended primarily by students from rural, peasant backgrounds. Many of the students I met had siblings, being from rural areas. One student told me about a family in his village who continued to have children, much to the consternation of the local politicos. Despite fines and ostracization from government services, the family ended up with several kids, all of whom went off, made decent livings, and sent a good bit back to their parents, making them now the wealthiest people in the village!<BR/><BR/>I found that many students, while reluctant, obviously, to criticize the State, were quite adamant about environmental abuses perpetrated under the 'New China' overseen by the State: degraded rivers, degraded forests, poor air, and the like. For rural people whose connection to the land goes back centuries, seeing the land and water polluted by State-supported capitalists strikes a very sensitive nerve. <BR/><BR/>Most Chinese, particularly rural Chinese, are pretty conservative people: they aren't out for a massive revolution or anything. But 'family-planning' policies, environmental destruction, and government corruption and abuse of all sorts may be enough to eventually push lots of people over the edge. One would hope that eventually China can see a more just social and economic order, along more Distributivist lines.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10019108361024010146noreply@blogger.com