I’ll be honest, I’ve looked at China Has Billionaires before and didn’t think it was impressive, but I’ll try actually reading both, if only because I appreciate you being nice to me.
an improvement in . . . democracy for workers
Could you expand on this point? Most of what you listed in that paragraph, and I think you’d even agree with me on this, belongs in the “this applies to Bismark” category of non-evidence. The part I quoted does not belong in that category, but I also am not familiar with worker democracy being on a positive trajectory in China and would consider that to be positive evidence.
Dessalines has a large compilation of Frequently asked questions, including an article on workplace democracy.
