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Her relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up the way to ending the Cold War; her privatization policies showed the world how to dismantle state socialism.
Translated into British terms, it meant releasing the impulse to wealth creation from the dead hand of socialism, bureaucracy, and trade unions, which in her reading of history had brought about Britain’s decline.
Having ushered scientific socialism into its grave at the Cold War’s end, we quickly found ourselves embracing another Science of Man.
It is arguable, for example, that Chinese socialism provided a strong launching pad for growth, particularly in terms of a solid base of education and health, rural electrification, a safety net enabled by equitable distribution of land rights, regional economic decentralization, and high female participation in the labor force.
BRISBANE – At an official dinner in Washington, DC, ahead of November’s G-20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch lectured ministers on the dangers of socialism and big government.
He knew that the shift from centrally planned egalitarian socialism toward market-oriented capitalism could destabilize the CCP’s rule, and the unequal accumulation of wealth in the short term could cause significant social and political division.
In the so-called “kitchen debate” of 1959 – one of the Cold War’s weirdest moments – Nixon sparred with Khrushchev in Moscow over the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
Such a policy reeked of socialism and America is not a socialist country, he asserted.
We called this socialism.
Indian-style socialism was a compound of nationalism and idealism.
The “permit-license-quota” culture of statist socialism allowed politicians and bureaucrats to use public service as a vehicle for private gratification, giving birth to a culture of corruption that still persists.
Moreover, Surowiecki argues, socialism has gone by the wayside, and there is no need to coopt the working class anymore.
According to Mussolini’s 1932 essay La dottrina del fascismo (The Doctrine of Fascism), written with the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, fascism opposes democracy, socialism, liberalism, and individualism (in addition to Bolshevism, parliamentarianism, Freemasonry, pacifism, and egalitarianism).
Socialism, too, was a brave and necessary corrective to the social inequalities that emerged from laissez-faire capitalism.
Watered down by the compromises without which liberal democracies cannot thrive, socialism did a great deal of good in Western Europe.
And the problem is not just a particular strain of violent revolutionary Islam, but Islam itself: “If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national socialism – a totalitarian ideology.”
And soft socialism combined with subsidized “national champions” is decaying in France.
So Karl Marx, it seems, was partly right in arguing that globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct (though his view that socialism would be better has proven wrong).
In the face of this British socialism of fools, which some portray as inoffensive support for the wretched of the earth in Palestine, Khan has had no trouble voicing strong condemnation.
In the boomtown of Shenzhen, with television cameras rolling, Deng jabbed his finger in the air, admonishing his Party: “If China does not practice socialism, does not carry on with ‘reform and opening’ and economic development, does not improve people’s standards of living, then no matter what direction we go, it will be a dead end.”
Reeling, many imagine the ex-communists a force capable of synthesizing the positive features of socialism -- guaranteed jobs, adequate pensions -- with the good in today's open society.
Here an irony intrudes: under socialism private markets were crushed by the state; under capitalism, markets function well only when the state provides a nourishing legal/institutional environment.
That the market is an organizational ideal is an important message for citizens in the postcommunist countries, where public resentment against what is perceived as the market economy often manifests itself in a nostalgia for socialism and its control mechanisms.
Property rights can be implemented through common law, civil law, or, for that matter, Chinese-style socialism.
Instead, the current installment of Latin American socialism is all too likely to produce a re-run of tragic episodes from the past.
But as health expenses start taking up a third of national income, healthcare socialism starts becoming just plain Marxism: to each according to his needs.
That reinforced the fundamental difference between market-oriented British governments and those of many EU countries, with their traditions of socialism, government planning, and heavy regulation.
Hundreds of millions were shut out of global prosperity in China and India by the madness of Mao Zedong and the misguided socialism of the Congress Party.
The opposition to the Nice Treaty was and continues to be a bizarre Irish Stew of pacifism, religion, and socialism, along with some fascinating local eccentricities.
Just a quarter-century ago, the debate about economic systems – state-managed socialism or liberal democracy and capitalism – seemed to have been settled.
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