Red Chinese national ballet performance in Guangxi, Nov. 9
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Here’s a stunning development: Activists in China are starting to say out loud what the government is trying to muffle over without discussion:

Communism is the problem in China. What is communism even doing in China in this modern age amid the glittering success of capitalism? What is it DOING here?

And they are standing up to say it, taking to the streets, handing out leaflets, exercising their God-given human right to free speech, and property rights, and risking major consequences from the regime:

Like this:

“I want to see freedom and democracy,” Wen said in a telephone interview. “But I was harassed by people from the community where I was living. They followed me and took back the leaflets and T-shirts I had distributed.”

A Chinese citizen casts a ballot for a largely powerless local council
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Years of reform and glasnost have taken place since Deng Xiaoping began his post-Mao reforms in earnest in 1979. There is a very real private sector in China. The boomtowns on the coast are growing and the prosperity of capitalism is spreading ever deeper in the heartland. The only success China has ever known is its capitalist part. Socialism has been a massive failure and a human rights disaster for China. Today, the communist party exists solely as an entity to maintain its own power. It is no longer an ideological force and nobody joins it except for capitalist reasons, namely, personal advancement. Yet that unspoken myth about why it’s there remains a mysterious contradiction, given the economic vibrance all around. Yet to publicly question its legitimacy is taboo, and thus far, nobody has.

Until today. Chinese activists are questioning the very basis for their society and asking if they can’t just be straightforward and say the truth about the reality of the failure of communism. They are taking to the streets.

This is REAL revolution, the culmination of twenty years of capitalism. If communism is toppled in China, the Tiger will be unleashed to real freedom.

Big story. Keep an eye on it, starting here.