Word: socialism
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...behind those impressive numbers lies a social revolution more profound than any ever seen in the Western world. Hundreds of millions of people once anchored by the certainties of guaranteed jobs and social services for life are now being cast adrift to fend for themselves in the turbulent waters of the market economy. "By closing down thousands of state enterprises that were losing money, China is creating unemployment on a scale never seen before anywhere in the world," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "That creates an enormous threat of social instability, which makes the government very insecure about its ability...
...That much was evident in August when the government banned the Falun Gong religious cult, whose members had sought comfort in its otherworldly explanations of the traumatic social changes under way in China. But the communists are struggling to come up with a coherent ideology to offer a society that it's trying to lead away from the party's own traditional beliefs...
...Communist party debate whether Beijing's reforms will be doomed without a Western-style democratic system, or whether the modernizing authoritarianism begun in the Deng era is essential to prevent the wheels from coming off the world's most populous country in the speed wobble of the most volatile social revolution in history...
...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...
Earlier this week it was announced that the star of both An Officer and a Gentleman and Slumber Party '57, Debra Winger, will be a teaching fellow in the life-changing course, General Education 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection." The following is a formal introduction to other significant additions to the rock-'em, sock-'em instructive line...