Word: collectivistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Guangdong, where Deng's injunction to "seek truth from facts" has led provincial officials to cite "unique local conditions" as a way of drifting as far from Communism as Beijing can tolerate, Wu's village represents the opposite tendency. In many ways it is still a collectivist town. The village employs doctors and covers all medical costs -- a practice $ no longer common in China, where many must pay for health care out of their own pockets. Land is privately owned, but much of its cultivation is accomplished by group effort...
Chafe went on to endorse the more inclusive of the two factions, saying "the progress made underlines the importance of the collectivist remedies...
...also chafed at UNESCO's increasingly collectivist outlook. The agency's charter, like that of the U.N., commits its members to support basic human rights. In the past five years, however, the "rights of peoples"-in other words, the state-have taken priority over "individual" rights...
...church's mission to right social wrongs, but only according to Christian principles. As on past pilgrimages in the developing world, he rejected the ideologies of both left and right. Instead, he called upon Christians to seek change in society "without resorting to violence or to collectivist systems that can prove no less oppressive to the dignity of man than pure economic capitalism." In a cut at both U.S. and Soviet proxy involvement in the region, particularly in El Salvador and Nicaragua, he stressed that it was important for each nation to "confront problems in a sincere dialogue, without foreign...
...Constituency: The two economists commit a left-wing version of the Japan-worship error in citing Swedish socialism as a model of "humane" industrial policy. American workers would probably resist Japan-style regimentation; but they have some pretty strong anti-collectivist traditions as well. Bluestone and Harrison simply gloss over this obstacle to an American movement for worker's control. And in a near-depression, workers are bound to look askance at any thing that sounds more risky than a job offer...