| | Andrés Gentry: Chinese struggle sessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Towards the beginning of his book, The End of History, he talks of a stage in authoritarian one-party regimes where one faction chooses to appeal to the people in its efforts to wrest power from an opposing faction. |
 | | Fukuyama makes the argument, rather persuasive, that democratic liberalism is the end point of history (hence the title of his book) and that all regimes, even single party authoritarian ones, eventually tend towards that destination. |
 | | There are certainly no cults around him, and as the machinations surrounding his attempt to enshrine his Theory of the Three Represents in the Chinese constitution shows, he needs to negotiate with other almost equally powerful actors to get a semblance of what he wants. |
| water1974.typepad.com /thoughts/2003/08/chinese_struggl.html (1535 words) |