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Many in the West assumed that liberal capitalism’s victory over totalitarian socialism would necessarily bring an end to wars and sanguinary revolutions.
But, as the twentieth century progressed, Muslim reformists lost ground to secular nationalists emphasizing socialism as the path to modernization.
Of course, when it comes to immigration and human rights, the internationalist ideological tradition of socialism prevents extreme nationalist and racist discourse on the far left.
The Paradox of Xi’s PowerCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – At the end of the six-day 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the roughly 2,200 delegates decided to add “Xi Jinping Thought on the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics” to the CPC’s constitution.
Historical precedents indicate that forcing disparate nations and states to unite under a single idea – whether communism in the Soviet Union, socialism in Yugoslavia, or a shared currency in the eurozone – generates centrifugal forces that can trigger the union’s collapse.
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.
Thus, the rise of the social-welfare state was a response (often of market-oriented liberal democracies) to the threat of popular revolutions, socialism, and communism as the frequency and severity of economic and financial crises increased.
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.
And it is not too soon to start planning for reconstruction and repatriation of refugees after Venezuela’s brand of socialism – or, more accurately, oil and cocaine clientelism – finally comes to an end.
Locust CapitalismGermany invented socialism.
If and when communism collapses in China, the piling-up of fortunes within leading families will probably have played a crucial role by persuading those leaders that life can offer pursuits even more rewarding than the struggle for socialism.
Poland’s GDP has almost doubled over the last 20 years, while Ukraine is still barely maintaining the output level recorded during the last year of socialism.
Without competition, capitalism works only a little better than socialism did.
Ukraine’s record over the past 20 years demonstrates that it is not enough to abolish socialism.
Upon independence half a century ago, India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, set India on a course of protectionism and socialism – two of the most self-defeating economic strategies of modern times.
Even during the liberal Prague Spring, Havel remained a dissenter, never accepting the idea of "socialism with a human face," arguing instead that real democracy was the only alternative to communism.
The cellphone has empowered the Indian underclass in ways that 45 years of talk about socialism singularly failed to do.
None of these governments openly speaks of socialism, much less Marxism.
In this sense, it is promising that China’s leaders admitted at the latest Congress that China is and will remain in the primary phase of socialism.
Having spent a decade dismantling the debris of state socialism, most of these countries chafe at the idea of importing the European social market's idea of solidarity via the EU.
And this soon shaded into anti-Semitism – what the German Social Democrat August Bebel famously called “the socialism of fools.”
This is the paradox of twenty-first-century socialism: economic liberalism is the foundation for a policy that aspires to replace it.
And the communitarian traditions of the right, with their nationalist past lurking behind, may not be any easier to revitalize than the old fashioned socialism or New Deal populism.
For we often sought to import tried and tested Western practices -- private property, the free market, competition, strict observance of human rights, the creation of civil society, representative democracy -- in diluted forms that would somehow help us maintain elements of Socialism.
As everywhere else where socialism was tried, this was a prescription for state financial crisis and slow growth.
The denouement came in 1991, the same year Soviet socialism collapsed.
The future of European Socialism is also hampered, strangely, by the EU.
To build Socialism in one country is impossible nowadays because all of Europe’s economies are now interdependent.
These institutions, based on free trade, competition, limited budget deficits, and sound money, are fundamentally pro-market; there is little leeway within them for doctrinaire Socialism.
And, indeed, the legacy of Third Reich hyper-chauvinism and “actually existing socialism” in the eastern part of the country has inculcated in most Germans a cautious centrism, rendering extremist parties unsupportable for the majority of voters.
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