Shanghai's services fall short of expectations

Shanghai has yet to learn its lesson. How can the city government be so inept at protecting the people, as seen in the tragic New Year's Eve stampede on the Bund, while being so efficient in erasing the murals on some old empty houses that had become a new attraction?

The events took place in different neighborhoods. But they seem to reflect the same problem, or should I say disease - namely, a lack of readiness and unwillingness to serve the public in a post-industrial, urban society.

Marxism can be a perfect tool to diagnose this Shanghai disease, to explain it as the government being slow to follow and adapt to the economy's progress in productive forces.