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Far more significant is the economic environment in which people work – a market economy versus some form of
socialism
– and the organization of businesses in which they participate.
Then there are the secular political ideologies, such as socialism, which have a strong ethical component.
Neither capitalism nor
socialism
has fully revealed how to achieve efficient GDP growth, an inclusive society, and ecological sustainability simultaneously.
They also believed in – or at least toyed with – forms of
socialism
and étatism, and did not consider democracy or civil rights to be priorities.
Members of this generation are better acquainted with notions of globalization and economic reform than with
socialism
and revolution.
Moreover, China’s intellectual circles are being pluralized, owing to the emergence of ideologies such as the New Left, democratic socialism, nationalism, neo-Confucianism, and new liberalism, while political discourse is permeating society more widely through foreign reporting and social media like Weibo, a Chinese microblogging Web site that resembles Twitter.
Most Central Asian states are mired in feudal
socialism
or feudal capitalism, while Russia -- despite imperfections -- moves towards capitalism and democracy.
The real contenders among economic and political systems seem to be a relatively humane welfare-state capitalism -- which is the system that defeated Communism, but which seems to be falling apart in both Europe and North America; a raw frontier-style capitalism, with few protections for the unlucky -- a system that seems to be the objective of conservatives in the United States, and may be the eventual outcome in much of Europe; and an oligarchy in which the power of the state is used to further the interests of the elite, with little pretense of either
socialism
or democracy -- the system that now prevails in China and to a lesser extent in some other Asian developing countries, and that could easily become the future of much of the former Soviet Empire.
The Pope and the PartyALBERTA – As the twentieth century neared, Pope Leo XIII, grieving for humanity’s choice between atheistic
socialism
and venal liberalism, commissioned Catholic intellectuals to devise a better solution.
Forsaking socialism, China did not adopt capitalism, but kept the Communist Party atop a self-legitimized hierarchy.
A third of humanity saw the Soviet Union as leading the world toward global
socialism.
Otherwise, the referendum to ratify the government’s proposed “MAS (Movement for Socialism) constitution” will only fuel more strife.
Confucian scholars such as Jiang Qing openly acknowledge that their interpretation of Confucianism most closely parallels socialist ideals: not the “actually existing socialism” in today’s China, but the socialist ideals defended by Karl Marx and others.
The “free coinage of silver” would be “but a step towards the general
socialism
which is the fundamental doctrine of his political belief.”
Back then, the issue was socialism, with Western university students imagining that salvation would somehow be found through street demonstrations and left-wing politics.
Having experienced what a real
socialism
was all about, I could only disappoint them, shattering their illusions.
Many Western feminists cling to the belief that
socialism'
s fall harmed women, or at least "threw them back" into the past.
I try, of course, to convey to my Western colleagues the truths about the situation of women under Areal
socialism.
It is the lack of stability that is responsible for so many confused memories about
socialism.
It is easy to forget, however, that under
socialism
all political decisions -- important or not -- were taken in a Politburo packed with old men.
It offers the last chance to avoid debt
socialism.
The ideological evolution of the Polish students led in the opposite direction – from efforts to “improve”
socialism
in the name of “true” Marxism to anti-totalitarian opposition and the construction of a free civil society.
For the left, his victory is an incentive to come up with realistic alternatives to the tried and failed liberal nostrums, and the discredited state
socialism
that was abandoned a decade ago.
All the same, Brazil's election was viewed by many in the Bush administration as presaging a rebirth of
socialism
("communism" to some).
The model of
socialism
that existed in the Soviet Union is dead; even the Communist Party does not seriously question the need for market economic relations.
Lip service was paid at Labour Party conferences to the old symbols of
socialism.
By the time Blair, following the example of his friend US President Bill Clinton, became Prime Minister by promoting the “third way,”
socialism
seemed to be dead and buried.
Gorbachev's choice to combine
socialism
and democracy was not all wrong, though many now denounce it as such.
And the far left had its own albatross: “really existing socialism” in the Soviet bloc was murderous and unproductive.
When the Berlin Wall came down – and state
socialism
along with it – the European Economic Community’s founding member states responded by establishing the European Union, and committing to deeper European integration.
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