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...felt in the rise of left-wing politicians vowing to temper market coldheartedness with old-fashioned protections for workers and the poor. Erstwhile radicals like Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 56, fiery head of Brazil's Workers Party, are running on rejection of "the Washington Consensus," as the capitalist reforms have come to be called...
...grew up on TV dinners, got bitten by the health-foods bug in his 20s and built his business by combining the concepts of health-foods store and gourmet market. Mackey is the son of an accounting professor, and despite his left-leaning roots, he is a carnivorous capitalist. Starting with a single Whole Foods store in Austin in 1980, he took 12 years to expand to five outlets. But after taking his firm public in 1992, he steadily opened new stores and used his equity to swallow competitors, buying 15 regional chains, including New England's Bread & Circus...
...Observers say the tentative reforms could start the sclerotic state on the capitalist road, just as China embarked on economic modernization in the '70s. "The fact that they are tackling the issue and starting to make these changes is significant," says David Morton, head of the World Food Program in Pyongyang. Skeptics suggest North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may be adjusting prices to curb the flourishing black market. A more plausible explanation: persistent food shortages and the need to import fertilizer, fuel and other commodities make it imperative that North Korea develop a functioning economy. The hermit country seems...
...need to get rid of the capitalist regimes in the region and that can only be done by creating socialist revolutions in the Middle East,” Meyers said...
...Capitalist politicians lie, cheat and steal,” Meyers said. “Communist politicians work to change the world by educating people, and for that you can?...