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While Republicans embraced a brutish, race-baiting reality-TV star, many Democrats swooned for a self-declared socialist senator with scarcely any legislative achievements to his name.
In the report he delivered to the National Congress, he mentioned the phrase more than 20 times, emphasizing “the overall goal of comprehensively advancing law-based governance” in order to “build a country of socialist rule of law.”
The vision, confirmed at the Congress, is for China to be a prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and modern socialist society, boasting strong governance.
In the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, the task of completing such difficult reforms just before crossing the "finish line" fell to socialist parties, forcing them to betray their socialist identity in the eyes of leftist voters.
From Cuba and in Caracas, he makes a show of governing, and he puts the transition in context: “The only transition here, one that we must accelerate and consolidate, is the transition to the socialist model.”
Moreover, while a number of nominally socialist economies have embraced free enterprise (or “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” as the Chinese Communist Party would say), it seems to be only a matter of time before they are forced to become more democratic.
Benito Mussolini, the founder of Italian fascism in 1919, started as a revolutionary socialist.
How much space exists for populism’s further growth, and which variety – socialist or fascist – will attract the available votes?
Its chronic indecisiveness about the North and unwillingness to use its leverage, thus shielding its socialist ally, seems to reveal to the wider world a China obsessed with its own narrow interests.
There was much talk recently about the "crisis of the left," as the Labor party in Britain, the Social-Democrats in Germany, and the Democrats in America had to struggle between their old socialist and New Deal traditions and the imperatives of a modern economy, with the fading labor unions and other political bastions of the old left.
They are a new type of individuality here, the individuality of the entrepreneur/survivor against the tyranny of the socialist crowd.
The Left is in the StreetsPARIS – The riots that have rampaged across Greece may have many causes, but one that is rarely mentioned is the fracturing of the Greek left into George Papandreou’s traditional socialist party, PASOK, and an increasingly radicalized faction that refuses all accommodation with either the European Union or modern economics.
In the face of this new radicalism, which is attracting some traditional Socialists, what are the more established socialist leaders to do?
Equal rights, according to this logic - as socialist thought has emphasized - imply public policies aimed at narrowing inequalities in the actual living conditions of all citizens.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, socialist revolutionaries led by Evno Asef embarked on a series of terrorist attacks against state officials.
One might have thought that a socialist, and a French Socialist at that, would be more inclined toward finance skepticism.
On the contrary, financial and economic insecurity has gripped Chinese households since the “iron rice bowl” – the cradle-to-grave support that the socialist state offered workers and their families – was discarded in the late 1990’s.
But while Royal has been careful to placate her socialist base, she has also talked about the need for market reforms in the French economy, and taken some foreign policy positions on Iran and Turkey that are closer to the American view than are Sarkozy’s.
In Central and Eastern Europe, post-Cold War reformers had to manage the transition from a decrepit centrally planned socialist system to a free-market economy.
Consider privatization of the economy, formerly run on socialist lines.
“How can we be expected to build the socialist economy,” asked a Ukrainian peasant, “when we are all doomed to hunger?”
The West’s logic for enlargement was geopolitical: to bring the former Soviet republics and socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe into the Western sphere of political and economic influence.
But turning everyone into a capitalist may be as impossible as the communist dream of turning everyone into an inspired socialist worker.
In China, the National People’s Congress in 2004 re-defined entrepreneurs and individual proprietors as “builders of the socialist cause,” and included them in the Patriotic United Front.
These social democrats were once part of a socialist, revolutionary, or reformist left, tightly allied with labor unions.
Marine Le Pen, whose National Front is associated with the far right, disagrees: to her, Macron, who was a minister in a Socialist government, is a leftist.
This insight is particularly useful in Europe, and increasingly around the globe, when examining the actions of supposedly leftwing and socialist governments.
To understand China’s socialist market economy, it is essential to examine systematically these different forms of contracts and their institutional structures.
Above all in France, because there is a real possibility that the present conservative government could be thrown out of power by a socialist victory in the parliamentary elections in the spring of 1998.
Unless a big recovery of the French economy occurs, with a significant fall in the unemployment rate, any incoming French socialist government would be under pressure to launch an expansive budgetary policy, which might be incompatible with monetary union in Europe.
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