Nobody is more egalitarian than when they are dead. that doesn't mean I propose mass suicide as a solution to today's problems.

I'm pretty boggled -- it was pretty clearly 'all the farmer peasants are equally free to starve,' and the city elite could do whatevs.

the biggest mass-murderer of the 20th century never gets his props

Oh he was complaining about how modern Chinese society is becoming more and more unfair.

With rich factory owners, the corrupting pursuit of money, and all that.

as it is, the rural migrant workers of china are working hard to make it: and winning. Read Factory Girls.