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...legacy of the reform-minded Chinese leader Hu Yaobang - whose death of a heart attack 20 years ago this week triggered the student movement in Beijing - they, too, published their work here in Hong Kong. "Isn't it an irony that the party members have to run here, a capitalist city, to publish their thoughts?" Meng Lang, the new book's Hong Kong publisher, asked with a smile. "I have lots of freedom here in Hong Kong. If it can be kept, it can be developed and exported to the mainland." (Read TIME's cover story about life...
...suburban riots of 2005, however, the ethnically diverse, economically disenfranchised project youths behind that violence had adapted France's tradition of politicized insurgency to a pragmatic goal that bossnapping employees are now also pursuing: securing a productive, gainful spot in France's market economy and capitalist society. The French public largely sympathizes: 55% of people in a BVA/Les Echos poll this week said they believe radical protest measures are justified, and 64% think actions like bossnapping should be depenalized because they constitute a last-gasp effort to avoid skyrocketing joblessness...
Karl: Class consciousness is depressingly low. The near collapse of the global financial system signals the inevitable clash of capitalist nations. Time to publicly acknowledge it. What better way to begin a workers revolution than to name the dog after the Man himself...
...world looks like,” said professor Robert W. Jensen, who blamed capitalism, white supremacy, and racism for the spread of increasingly violent heterosexual pornography. Jensen said that pornography becomes increasingly violent, racially charged, and degrading towards women to increase profit by appealing to capitalist consumers. The lecture—co-sponsored by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and several student groups—was billed as an effort to promote dialogue about sexual violence. With over 20 years of research on pornography to his name, Jensen—who focuses on male production and consumption...
...economy can be attributed partly to a surge in bank lending that began in November. This, he notes, could only happen in an authoritarian country such as China, where the government can - and did - order the banks to lend. "The bottom line is that if this was a purely capitalist system, [lending] would be slowing," Wood says. Stimulus spending over the next three months will continue to boost economic activity, Wood says, but the impact will start to wear off later in the year. Absent a recovery in China's hugely important export sector, "the bigger risk in China...