Word: nonsocialist
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...Nonsocialist societies, in fact, have done their own share of vaccinating and know the ache of a sore arm. Americans for decades have enjoyed Social Security and disability programs and unemployment benefits, to say nothing of the world's most extensive system of government-supported colleges and universities. Partly as a result, the U.S., like other industrial democracies, has begun to suffer the pains of a mushrooming bureaucracy...
...necessarily capitalism and not socialism that enslaves the human spirit. Economically, socialism has logged impressive achievements, sometimes against tremendous odds. Yet in comparing neighboring countries where one is socialist and the other is not (North Korea v. South Korea, Tanzania v. Kenya), the statistical evidence almost always favors the nonsocialist nation...
There are, of course, nonsocialist countries that grossly violate civil and political rights. Witness Iran, Chile or Haiti. Yet it is surely more than coincidence that the only functioning democracies are found in capitalist or mixed-economy states, while authoritarianism is firmly installed in every socialist country, with the exception of the social democracies. This has prompted deep self-searching by many socialists. Says Asoka Mehta, India's leading socialist thinker: "Socialism is an attractive goal, but concentration of power is as dangerous as concentration of capital." Oxford Research Fellow Leszek Kolakowski, a dedicated socialist who left Poland...
...longevity record unsurpassed in Europe today except by the Soviet Union's durable Bolsheviks. Last week, in a decision that echoed throughout Western Europe, Sweden's voters ousted the Social Democrats and cautiously mandated a new, more conservative course for their country. Nationwide parliamentary elections gave the nonsocialist bloc-the Center, Moderate and Liberal parties-50.8% of the vote, providing it with 180 of Parliament's 349 seats, v. 47.6% of the vote and 169 seats for the informal ruling alliance of the Social Democratic and Communist parties...
...complaints have had political impact. The three nonsocialist opposition parties (Liberal, Center and Moderate) have pledged to halt the trend toward greater government centralization and slow the growth of the welfare state; the nonsocialist bloc has gained considerable strength. Since the 1973 election that left the Social Democrats with only 156 of Parliament's 350 seats, they have had to govern as a minority, relying on the support of 19 Communist votes and occasional deals with other opposition Deputies in order to enact key legislation. According to the latest polls, the Social Democrats' support is down...