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Finally, Revel points to the rise within Western democracies of an "industry of blame," bent on fostering a one-sided notion of historical guilt. According to those who hold this view, everything that is bad, especially in the Third World, results from forces in the "rich" - meaning capitalist -democracies. Thus any Western attempt to resist Communist aggression, as in Angola or Viet Nam, arouses intellectual confusion and paralysis. Says Revel: "There was a time when you were an imperialist if you invaded an alien territory and imposed on independent peoples an authority they rejected. Today, you are an imperialist...
Both Fines and Tsosie agree that coming to college is to "go capitalist." They say they have no qualms about using the whiteman's way. "We are not assimilative, we are adapting," says Tsosie Gawboy goes even further: "It's easier to destroy something from within than from without "You're out for yourself first," adds Fines...
CHINA. In the late 1970s the government began allowing peasants to sell excess produce on open markets and pocket the proceeds. Result: sales of agricultural products are up 53.5% since 1978. Last month China unveiled a plan to extend similar capitalist-style reforms to its long-depressed cities. State-owned enterprises will be allowed to keep part of their profits, and managers will have new freedom to set wage levels and hire and fire as they choose. Most important, the prices of many products will be allowed to fluctuate according to supply and demand. Until now, the cost of such...
...Kong got a boost in September after Britain and China inked a new agreement on the colony's future. When Britain's lease on most of Hong Kong expires in 1997, China will take political control. But Peking promised not to interfere with Hong Kong's capitalist economy for 50 years after assuming sovereignty...
...expressed by an envious KGB agent: "How could a man reach Blore's position of eminence without being checked or vetted? Questions like this were put in the public mind by the likes of Feathers. In other words, he worried them, and stirred them up. For this, the capitalist press magnates paid him sums far in excess of any fee he would have received from the Soviets for acting against Western interests...