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See, some have decided a priori what kinds of changes they want to see, and only such changes can be called political reform.

The truth is, political reforms have never stopped.

Now such changes are simply not possible without political reforms of the most fundamental kind.

Now I would venture to suggest the Party is the world's leading expert in political reform.

The Party happens to be one of the most meritocratic political institutions in the world today.

Now we come to a powerful political institution, little-known to Westerners: the Party's Organization Department.

Now, Westerners always assume that multi-party election with universal suffrage is the only source of political legitimacy.

On the political front, the worst problem is corruption.

Economic reform will accelerate, political reform will continue, and the one-party system will hold firm.

It is the universal claim that many Western elites are making about their political system, the hubris, that is at the heart of the West's current ills.

If they would spend just a little less time on trying to force their way onto others, and a little bit more on political reform at home, they might give their democracy a better chance.

China's political model will never supplant electoral democracy, because unlike the latter, it doesn't pretend to be universal.

EXL: You know, Frank Fukuyama, the political scientist, called the Chinese system "responsive authoritarianism."

Because, by Western definitions, a so-called civil society has to be separate or even in opposition to the political system, but that concept is alien for Chinese culture.

For thousands of years, you have civil society, yet they are consistent and coherent and part of a political order, and I think it's a big cultural difference.

One set of causes is political: lower taxes, deregulation, particularly of financial services, privatization, weaker legal protections for trade unions, all of these have contributed to more and more income going to the very, very top.

A lot of these political factors can be broadly lumped under the category of "crony capitalism," political changes that benefit a group of well-connected insiders but don't actually do much good for the rest of us.

It gets tempting at that point to use your economic nous to manipulate the rules of the global political economy in your own favor.

And why stop at just playing the global political and economic system as it exists to your own maximum advantage?

Once you have the tremendous economic power that we're seeing at the very, very top of the income distribution and the political power that inevitably entails, it becomes tempting as well to start trying to change the rules of the game in your own favor.

But it's important to remember that before we learned how to share the fruits of the Industrial Revolution with the broad swathes of society, we had to go through two depressions, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Long Depression of the 1870s, two world wars, communist revolutions in Russia and in China, and an era of tremendous social and political upheaval in the West.

We also, not coincidentally, went through an era of tremendous social and political inventions.

To be sure that this new economy benefits us all and not just the plutocrats, we need to embark on an era of comparably ambitious social and political change.

So did our political problems.

Over 60,000 people came to the start line, all wearing white T-shirts with no political slogans.

So through the marathon, we learned that political problems can be overcome.

I was a little conflicted though, because I was so excited about what I'd found, but I was just about to graduate from college with a degree in political science, and I'd always had this dream of going to Washington, D.C., and sitting at a desk and working in government.

And that adds up to the biggest problem of all, which, of course, is the political problem.

How do you get a political leader to do anything about a problem like this?

The Internet is a fantastic resource for business, for political expression, for art and for learning.

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