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If remuneration is perceived as unjust, trust in the capitalist system will suffer.
All of the main capitalist economies have severe budget problems; all need to cut spending or raise taxes.
Just as only Begin could make peace with Egypt, de Klerk turn South Africa into a multi-racial society, and KGB apparatchik named Andropov to lay the foundations of perestroika and glasnost, so it may take socialists to reduce the welfare state to manageable size and former communists to restore sound financial management to capitalist countries nearly ruined by rightwing regimes -- whether by corruption, as in Italy, or by ideological fantasy, as in America and Britain.
We now live in a world where former communists must take pride in becoming successful managers of a capitalist economy.
A leftwing government that can manage a capitalist economy better than a rightwing one will have this success acknowledged by financial markets.
The old state planner Chen Yuan once cautioned that Chinese reformers had created "a birdcage economy" in which a capitalist bird was growing within a socialist cage.
His inference was that, unless Party leaders were careful, this capitalist bird would literally burst out of its socialist cage, spelling an end to China's Marxist-Leninist revolution.
Indeed, the old socialist economic birdcage has now been largely burst by China's capitalist reforms, releasing with a vengeance a mutant "people's republic" into the global marketplace of consumerism.
Although Chinese leaders speak of "One country, two systems" as their formula for governing Hong Kong - and possibly Taiwan some day - their slogan is far more relevant to China itself, given the co-existence of a capitalist economic system within a Leninist political system.
They wanted to retain Hong Kong as a dynamic capitalist showcase – one that remained as politically quiescent as before the handover.
Subsequently, they raised equity capital from investors seeking to make a social impact – Compartamos from Accion and the IFC, and SKS from Unitus, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and an Indian government development agency.
The former has a considerably lower standard of living, owing to its communist government and centrally planned economy, which contrast sharply with South Korea’s democratic government and mixed capitalist economy.
When the Berlin Wall fell, barely two generations after the war ended, the standard of living in communist East Germany was just one-fifth the level attained in capitalist West Germany.
Of course, to some degree, a capitalist system will always be vulnerable to shocks and crises.
An old tenet of leftist ideology holds that hegemonic capitalist countries like the US can never act well in the world.
Aside from costing billions of taxpayer dollars, Paulson’s plan violates the fundamental capitalist principle that whoever reaps the gains also bears the losses.
For anyone who believes in free markets, the most serious risk of the current situation is that the interest of a few financiers will undermine the capitalist system’s fundamental workings.
So long as the USSR did not stage a military attack, containment’s reliance on economic sticks and carrots, competition within the world communist movement, intelligence and diplomacy, and promoting the vitality of the capitalist democracies would guarantee security.
The main enemy of the open society is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
Critics will warn of a brain drain, but do we really think that a 1% tax would convince, say, the venture capitalist Peter Thiel to pack up and move to New Zealand?
Vibrant capitalist economies have always depended on a carefully calibrated balance between government policy and private competition.
But, rather than holding back growth and destroying private enterprise, it was followed by 30 years of spectacular capitalist development, spreading prosperity as never before and dramatically expanding the ranks of the American middle class.
And now that rapid technological change is threatening the ICT sector’s business model – providing low-cost programming services to foreign clients – even India’s “cleanest” capitalist industry is confronting governance challenges.
A loose alliance of struggling capitalist democracies” is faced by Russia and China.
The traditional capitalist model may have made Bill Gates rich, but his foundation now finances valuable technological breakthroughs in unprofitable ways.
Today’s resurgence of illiberal state capitalist regimes and leaders is nowhere close to inciting a war, because center-right and center-left governments still committed to liberal democracy, enlightened economic policies, and solid welfare systems still rule most of Europe.
In a crony capitalist system, threatening the governing elite’s wealth rapidly erodes loyalty to the regime.
The metaphor, overwhelmingly endorsed by voters, stood for Roosevelt’s mandate to fix the ailing economy along lines that were innovative but still essentially capitalist.
By all means, the elite 0.1% should pay much more in taxes, but let us not forget that when it comes to reducing global inequality, the capitalist system has had an impressive three decades.
But even Germany can't afford to expand the socialist stranglehold of labor on what is supposed to be a capitalist economy, for one day worker use and abuse of the political system will cannibalize economic substance.
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