Ownership: the beginning of the end?

China has had a heck of a time with its peasant farmers. It has taken their land and rights, but that is nice compared to the slaughter of millions of people by Chairman Mao.

After reading this article, I feel as though China is wrong in not giving farmers land, but the government is acting in its own interest. If they give the farmers their land, they are giving them power. If they give them power they will rise up like a good proletariat should. Now one could say that this prevents a proletariat uprising, but I think in a place like china that has such a large central government, the more power they give to the people, the more of a threat that the government will fall.

The Chinese government is looking out for itself in this situation. That may be good or bad, but a large uprising in China is not what the world needs right now.