Comment by justinclift

> the neoliberals consistently predicted their immediate downfall that never came.

That doesn't seem correct. Wasn't the predication that once China started to become successful they'd open up and become more democratic?

Which clearly didn't happen, as per the outright slaughter of the Chinese university students who were protesting in 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...