Sure. They see it as the government defending them from dangerous radicals who had no idea what they were going to do once they got control of the country. How were they planning on feeding, clothing, caring for a billion people? Nobody bothered to say.
They also spoke for nobody but themselves. They were university students, not from the people.
"The students are nuts if they think this handful of people can overthrow our Party and our government."
-- Wang Zhen, Chinese Communist official, May 1989
Sure. They see it as the government defending them from dangerous radicals who had no idea what they were going to do once they got control of the country. How were they planning on feeding, clothing, caring for a billion people? Nobody bothered to say.
They also spoke for nobody but themselves. They were university students, not from the people.
-- Wang Zhen, Chinese Communist official, May 1989
How will we solve it? Freedom and democracy! When will we solve it? After we sell off our public infrastructure to Exxon and GE!