The underlying, quite Marxian fear in Beijing with the financial crisis

FRONT PAGE: "China Fears Restive Migrants As Jobs Disappear in Cities," by Shai Oster, Wall Street Journal, 2 December 2008.

Back in the day, we called them "proletariat"--as in, just off the farm and disoriented by industrial life and thus inclined to be pissed off in general and downright nasty during an economic downturn.

China may not be a Marxist state anymore, but it's got Marxist issues all right.

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[Louis Heberlein]

Where do the mean Greek teens fit into this picture? They should reflect the cool Old Core sophistication.