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In fact, now, after his death, he is well on the way to being lionized as someone who foresaw many current problems, and not only at home: while still President, he repeatedly called attention to the self-destructive forces of industrial civilization and global capitalism.
In the process, a basic principle of modern capitalism – that when debtors cannot pay back creditors, a fresh start is needed – has been overturned.
Russia may now go on to complete its transition from communism to capitalism.
Meanwhile, state-led capitalism offers China’s economy its own protections.
Over the last two decades, almost every other plank of the Communist Party's platform (world-wide people's war, proletarian struggle leading to a classless utopia, a triumph over global capitalism, etc.), has been abandoned.
Yet Hong Kong-style capitalism is not founded simply on the pursuit of material gain.
Western observers placed the blame on Asian countries’ lack of transparency and on overly close relations between firms and governments – what they described as “crony capitalism.”
State capitalism of the sort exemplified by China has strong support among policymakers in Russia, Venezuela, and Argentina, and even in Brazil, India, and South Africa.
Unguided capitalism undermined itself, according to Erhard, as monopolists cornered markets and captured the state.
This is because the destruction of confidence undermines the “animal spirits” of capitalism: borrowers are unwilling to borrow and lenders are unwilling to lend.
In other words, one-third of French voters are now attracted to candidates with extreme ideologies that share an anti-liberal rejection of the euro, capitalism, and globalization.
It is no accident that religious reform in Scandinavia, Germany, England, the Netherlands, and the United States gave rise to today’s global capitalism.
Karl Marx oversold socialism, but he was right in claiming that globalization, unfettered financial capitalism, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct.
As he argued, unregulated capitalism can lead to regular bouts of over-capacity, under-consumption, and the recurrence of destructive financial crises, fueled by credit bubbles and asset-price booms and busts.
Russian capitalism hates the consumer as much as Russian communism did.
Moscow nowadays has all the trappings of high-end capitalism: Prada, Fouchon, Rolls Royce.
Soviet socialism thought its citizens unworthy of any form of service altogether;Russian capitalism doubts that you can control your appetites, so it wants to control them for you.
Founded by the remarkable Lena Nemirovskaya, the school’s purpose was to introduce young post-communist Russians to democracy, self-government, and capitalism.
Indeed, there is a deep sense that capitalism in the West has become unfair.
Although the country profited greatly from its reintegration into the world trading system after World War II, Germany never really came to terms with Anglo-Saxon capitalism and skepticism about it still runs deep.
Now, with Germany’s economy no longer functioning smoothly, capital moving abroad, and unemployment rising, criticism of capitalism is again gaining momentum.
There were times when German capitalism was shown greater respect.
In the postwar period, Germany’s economic miracle calmed skeptics of capitalism.
During the 1970’s, Germans went overboard, confusing capitalism with self-service shops.
But capitalism without the prospect of failure is not any kind of market economy.
In Marx’s Shadow AgainA century and a half ago, Karl Marx both gloomily and exuberantly predicted that the modern capitalism he saw evolving would prove incapable of producing an acceptable distribution of income.
By opening itself to finely shaded demands of the individual, the democracy of late capitalism not only accepts outrage, it cohabits with the outrageous.
I have just finished Alexievich’s latest dreadful masterpiece, Secondhand Time, a brutal account of the chaotic Russian capitalism of the 1990s.
Furthermore, uneven protection of property rights – crony capitalism – means that a small number of businessmen are politically favored.
Because the state uses its apparatus to deter competition – both informally, through arbitrary enforcement of property rights, and formally, through trade restrictions – crony capitalism is not only unjust, but also inefficient.
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