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...Peking, for instance, will find tape decks and stationery for sale. Small group-owned businesses this year plan to build 59 hotels in Peking alone. The most daring of these experiments has seen a few collectives sell "internal shares" to employees, on which they stand to gain "bonuses" (the capitalist-sounding term dividends is still avoided). When a photoprinting service in Shanghai offered stock for sale earlier this year, thousands of people lined up to pay $17.50 each per share, equivalent to about half a month's wages for an average worker...
...potential of free enterprise in China, where even the People's Daily, the Communist Party newspaper, has declared that "getting rich and buying consumer goods is not decadent--especially if it makes life more pleasant." On the other hand, the ostracism suffered by Ju highlights the difficulties of introducing capitalist measures into a state that for more than three decades has regarded the unfettered pursuit of money as a source of evil. If prosperity is encouraged in Deng's China, it is still not universally admired...
...raised Communist eyebrows in Havana and furnished gossip items for the capitalist press. But the deal is apparently in the works: Fidel Castro, 59, will reportedly receive $2.5 million from the U.S. publisher Simon & Schuster for three books. The first volume would include his 1979 speeches to the United Nations and his views on Latin America's debt, the second his thoughts on religion and Marxism, and the third his memoirs. Questions remain, however, about whether el jefe maximo will ever receive his fee. Last November the Treasury Department issued a license to Simon & Schuster allowing it to sign...
...They shouted party slogans at each other like cheerleaders for opposing teams. When the going got really hot, they wound up in a pillow fight. Jessica moved to the U.S. and stuck with the Communist Party until the end of the '50s. In the '60s she became a sudden capitalist success, thanks to her family saga Hons and Rebels and a classic expose of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death...
...proletarian hero George Garga's change into an authoritarian lumber owner also points to the submerged importance of the individual and the increased importance of the social role in which the individual acts. Garga and Shlink aren't such bad guys, they are just destroyed by the lumber capitalist role that they are forced to play...