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...living in socialist Tanzania in the '70s taught Museveni just how flawed communism was. "Lenin talked only about money going out," he says. "He didn't talk about the wages a company paid that stayed inside the country, or the money paid for power and light, or the raw materials it bought or the taxes it paid. Lenin missed this." Even more important, Museveni saw firsthand that nationalized enterprises didn't work. "Communal property was nobody's property," he says. "So nobody worked. The problem was motivation. None of these fellows had a stake." He opens his eyes wide...
Initially, he focused his philanthropic speculation on Central and Eastern Europe. A survivor of the Holocaust and communism, he spread hundreds of millions of dollars to support democracy in countries struggling to break from the old Soviet orbit. In the waning years of the cold war, he bought photocopiers for his native Hungary so the communists couldn't monopolize information. Later, with Russia adrift, he spent $100 million to help Soviet science, and scientists, survive the transition. In Yugoslavia he was outraged by what he perceived to be the pusillanimity of the West, so he doled out $50 million...
...Idea Commission is for. Trouble is, neither does the National Idea Commission. Boris Yeltsin summoned this august group of intellectuals in the aftermath of his narrow 1996 election victory, and charged them with finding out what the big idea was ? in other words, what makes Russia Russian now that Communism's gone? Well, after a year of extremely deep thought, the Commission has reconvened to tell the world: Sorry, we haven't a clue...
...hope that just the process of debating who should make the TIME 100 will be an interesting way to help us think about a century that saw the transition from an industrial age into an electronic one, the triumph of democratic capitalism over fascism and communism, the horrors of unprecedented World Wars and genocide, the development of movies and television and the Internet, and the magic of new forms of art, music and sport...
There's one simple explanation for the triumph of capitalism over Soviet communism: we had Astaire and Marilyn; all they had were boy-loves-tractor pictures. As the battle of the ideologies was fought on movie screens around the world, the edifying drabness of Soviet-bloc films couldn't compete with America's glamorous, sexy, lilting pop culture. As Dana Ranga, director of the terrific documentary East Side Story, puts it, "A specter was haunting communism: the specter of Hollywood...