History keeps offering up surprises, sometimes unpleasant ones:
Remember all those theories about how the emergence of an urban middle-classes is a force for democratisation, because the bourgeoise will demand political rights? Well, in Thailand the precise opposite is happening. The urban middle-classes are rising up and demanding that democracy be rescinded.
Next up: China?
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/12/thai-me-up-thai-me-down/207929/
