Chinese Farce?

The Chinese government is planning to engineer yet another migration of its population. Within the next few years, China intends to "move" around 250 million people from the countryside to the cities. The idea is to push farmers from self-sustenance to an economy of consumerism.

China hopes that this will give its economy a humungous boost.

Not too long ago, the Chinese, under Mao Ze Dong, were forced to migrate from the cities to the countryside, so as to teach the urban intelligentsia the "lesson" of self-sustenance, because the Mao regime thought of them to be "parasites" living off the labor of the producer-class, including farmers.

As Marx is said to have said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.