Word: capitalisme
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In a sense he is merely broadening his experimentation with free markets. The party is to politics what Gosplan, the state central planning agency, is to the economy. For some time enterprising Georgians have been allowed to fly to Moscow in the dead of winter to sell their flowers at...
Son of a highly cultured schoolteacher, Lenin was expelled from school for taking part in a student protest. While idling at home, he discovered the works of Karl Marx, which prophesied the inevitable collapse of capitalism and its empires. He did finally get a law degree, but his fascination with...
If Bush refuses to learn form a "commie," perhaps he will heed the advice of the godfather of capitalism, Adam Smith: "The whole army and navy are unproductive labourers. They...are maintained by a part of the annual produce of the industry of other people. Their service, how honourable, how...
But is it a step in the Right direction? Is this the Soviet Union's final acknowledgement that it was an Evil Empire after all, that Ronald Reagan's America was right all along? Has capitalism KO'd communism once and for all?
Obviously not. Despite the descriptions of the newly anticipated Soviet government as "Western-style," this is not really an issue of East and West or of communism and capitalism. It is an issue of political democracy. Despite Gorbachev's market-oriented reforms, the Soviet Union will probably never be an...