The Predator State

In the post-war era, for the first time in the U.S., basic material needs of most people were being met. But a much more important part of it was what my father called social balance: private opulence and public squalor. And this is a crucial element in assuring that the society has a broad solidarity with its entire population. In China, we see an idea that deep poverty should be eliminated but also urban centers that were in most Chinese now live.