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...warp speed. Deng Xiaoping's immortal slogan, "To get rich is glorious," has replaced Mao's aphorisms in the same way that the tabloid Shopper's Guide has supplanted his Little Red Book. But the Chinese are discovering that while getting rich is marvelous, it can also be numbing. Communism and its concordant atheism remain the state religion. Indeed, Hu Jintao, a contender to succeed President Jiang, built his career partly on suppressing Tibetan Buddhist followers of the Dalai Lama and, it is believed, supported the crackdown on Falun Gong, the mystic sect that claims millions of members in China...
Nevertheless, many Chinese are looking to Buddhism, Taoism and even brand-new religions to slake a thirst that all the Cokes in the world won't abate. Explains William T. Liu, an American sociologist working in Singapore: "Chinese communism is a system of economic development, but there is no theology to explain what people should believe in. China is very fertile ground for any religion right...
...turmoil in Russia [WORLD, Aug. 23]: After the fall of communism, the country is gradually heading toward true democracy. But at the rate at which Prime Ministers are being replaced, it looks as if every Russian will be given a chance to hold the office. JOHN JEYARAJ Coonoor, India...
...novel (for a communist) slogan "To get rich is glorious." And today's China is anything but classless; in fact, its income inequalities are more pronounced than those of some of its avowedly capitalist Asian neighbors. Marx, Lenin and Mao would spin in their graves at what passes for communism in China at the end of the 20th century...
...goes without saying that the very idea of vouchers is anathema to a city which has yet to come to grips with the failure of progressive social experiments like rent control and Communism. But it is, perhaps, the best practical method so far conceived to advance equality in educational opportunity for all children--something that Cambridge should keep in mind as it struggles to provide for both the new urban elite, who have many choices and the old urban poor, who have...