CCP: Money making machine

Japan Times reports that the intellectual architect of Deng Xiaoping's market reforms has decided that the clock must be turned back: Liu Guogong has decided that "the Marxist canon" and free market are incompatible and that the latter must be jettisoned to save the former.

Sensing that the government has actually lost control of the country, Liu is hoping to reimpose Marxist orthodoxy rather than real Marxist analysis of a situation in which the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. Instead of social services, we have in China no safety net at all...after fifty years of revolution, there is no socialism in Mao's famous countryside, where conditions deteriorate and a steady migration of peasants into the city provide cheap sweat shop labor.