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Aelfwine
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10 Jun 2012, 1:25 pm

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Compare this to the received wisdom about North Korea. Don't people often say that North Korea can only maintain its grip on the populace because it does not allow them to visit the outside world?

That's one reason why I think that the policy in China could change in the next years or decades.

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Rome has accomplished much more under its dictatorship than it did with its senators.


But large parts of the later Roman history were marked by stagnation and civil war.
(Think about the many usurpers)



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10 Jun 2012, 9:56 pm

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Longshanks wrote:
Aelfwine wrote:
A dictatorship cannot survive indefinitely.
I think that the economic growth in China can't continue indefinitely.
With a higher life standart the Chinese people could try to get better education, and to get more interested in politics.
If the economic growth ends, the people would become unhappy and try to fight for there rights.
In my view it is only a question of time.

But the result of a revolution must not be democracy.


A dictatorship may not last forever, but the Roman Empire is proof that it can still last a good, long time.

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The Roman Empire was not always a dictatorship.


Yeah. It became one with the advent of Crassus and Caesar and was for hundreds of years afterwards. Your point?

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