Word: ownerships
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...trouble began on Thursday in Chiba prefecture, just south of Tokyo, when 1,100 members of a renegade chapter of the Locomotive Engineers' Union went on a 24-hour wildcat strike. At issue was the proposed breakup of the stateowned Japanese National Railways and its eventual sale to private ownership. Privatization is favored by the government, which is liable for the JNR's deficit, which totals over $92 billion. The proposal was harshly denounced by the 38,000-member Locomotive Engineers' Union as well as by the 200,000-member National Railway Workers' Union because it could reduce...
...China's Deng Xiaoping leads 1 billion people on a far-reaching, bold but risky second revolution Defying the precepts most cherished by traditional Marxists, he is attempting to blend on a monumental scale elements that seem irreconcilable: state ownership and private property, central planning and competitive markets, political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom. The reforms are a big gamble, and they face considerable domestic opposition. But if they work, the world will not be the same...
...evolving in China either ignores or defies many of the precepts most cherished by traditional Marxists (especially those running the Soviet Union). In the Chinese spirit of balance between yin and yang, Deng's second revolution is an attempt on a monumental scale to blend seemingly irreconcilable elements: state ownership and private property, central planning and competitive markets, political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom. Indeed, it is almost, or so it often seems to skeptics in both the Western and Marxist worlds, an attempt to combine Communism and capitalism...
...exactly that, but to the extent that he bothers with ideology, which is not very far, he certainly tends to a minimalist definition of Marxism. As Deng told TIME: "In carrying on socialism, I think we should uphold two things. First, public ownership should always play a dominant role in our economy. Second, we should try to avoid [class] polarization and we should always keep to the road of common prosperity." Beyond that, he implies, pretty much anything goes if it "will lead China to development...
...first leases were for two or three years, but they are now being extended, usually for 15 years and as long as 30 years on grazing land. Under a 1985 law the leases can be inherited. Peasants own their draft animals, and those who prosper can buy machinery; ownership of tractors has burgeoned from 90,000 to 290,000 in the past two years. Though the state retains the power to cancel a peasant family's lease and award it to someone else, that power is rarely exercised. Farm families are increasingly regarding the good earth as theirs and using...