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Even though the end of
communism
in China may seem a foregone conclusion, the fall of the Chinese Communist Party will be accomplished not by an outside force but only by its own members.
The Containment Debate, Round TwoPARIS – At the Cold War’s outset, there was an intense debate in the United States between those who wanted to contain
communism
and those who wanted to roll it back.
If, as Lenin put it,
communism
was, “Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country,” Putinism can be reduced to nuclear weapons and oil extraction.
Mikhail Gorbachev was originally installed in power to press on with Yuri Andropov’s KGB-inspired vision of communism, but instead diverted the Soviet Union’s course into glasnost and perestroika , and accidentally into freedom.
Many countries, indeed, show a buildup of pricey goods--cars, refrigerators, videocassette recorders--unavailable under
communism.
Rather than view recent polling as referenda on market reforms, or on capitalism versus communism, these votes show how much East European politics now resemble politics in the West: interest groups rule.
Under Communism, public debate was confined to private kitchens.
What
communism
failed to provide – modern management, new technologies, and marketing know-how – was what multinationals could offer.
These are the same societies that clamored before and after the fall of
communism
for a “return to Europe,” proudly proclaiming that they shared its values.
But many social-democratic ideals, rooted in Marxist notions of social justice and equality, were thrown out, like the proverbial baby, with the bathwater of
communism.
In the 1960’s, America wanted Pakistan to be on its side as it sought to contain the spread of
communism
in Asia.
Let us remember that Soviet
communism
took four decades to rot away – decades during which the inner circle knew that the regime was disintegrating from within but lacked any real idea of how to save it.
Likewise, Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton ought to have recognized in the 1990’s that something like a Marshall Plan for Eastern Europe to help with the transition from
communism
would have been an excellent investment for the world’s future.
Having dispatched communism, much of the Europe that rests east of the Elbe faces strong growth and a brighter future.
Finally, Yeltsin must recognize that Russia’s failure to grow in almost a decade of post
communism
has much to do with his temporizing on economic reform.
Just as it produced a potent fusion of
communism
and anti-American nationalism in Southeast Asia and Latin America, it is now producing a similar combination of radical Islam and anti-American nationalism across the Middle East.
In China, the results were similar, as the political embrace of
Communism
meant going autarkic and giving the state a massive role in the economy.
There are differences, of course, but the upheavals’ sweeping and contagious nature is strongly similar to that of the revolutions that brought
communism
to an end in Europe.
Popper showed that totalitarian ideologies like
communism
and Nazism have a common element: they claim to be in possession of the ultimate truth.
After the collapse of communism, the mission of the foundation network changed.
The collapse of
communism
laid the groundwork for a universal open society, but Western democracies did not rise to the occasion.
After the failure of communism, there came a general disillusionment with universal concepts, and the open society is a universal concept.
Popper showed that fascism and
communism
had much in common, even though one constituted the extreme right and the other the extreme left, because both relied on the power of the state to repress the freedom of the individual.
I want to stress, however, that I do not put laissez-faire capitalism in the same category as Nazism or
communism.
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as did
communism.
It claims that if redistribution causes inefficiencies and distortions, the problems can be solved by eliminating redistribution--just as
communism
claimed that the duplication involved in competition was wasteful, and therefore a centrally planned economy was superior.
With the demise of communism, a global open society, however imperfect, became a reality.
It is enough to consider the effects of the free world's failure to extend a helping hand to Russia after the collapse of
communism.
The collapse of Communism, I believe, was part of the overall exhaustion of socialist politics in both systems.
Tanks did not roll, the undoing of
communism
proceeded apace and in peace, extending ultimately into Russia.
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