Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...address was co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats, the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club, the Young Socialist League and the Young America's Foundation...
...high growth, China might revert to the chaos he witnessed during the Cultural Revolution. "It's the economy, stupid!" could just as easily be Jiang's mantra as Clinton's. His prescription--which sometimes strikes me as too much of a contradiction in terms to work--is for a "socialist market economy," in which free markets and free ideas are encouraged until things get boisterous or too messy. Then central planners step in, and there are crackdowns on profiteers and dissidents until things settle down...
While recognizing how much China still needs to accomplish, Jiang, 72, is beginning to think about his legacy and about the leaders who will follow him. In the two decades since the socialist market economy was introduced, "we have embarked on a new era," he said. "Deng Xiaoping taught us that China needs to open its doors and establish economic links with the capitalist, developed world...
...officials swear they no longer fear exposing any lingering secrets about CIA support for Pinochet or for his 1973 coup against Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende. What does concern them, they say, is the prospect of a dangerous new right-left polarization in Chile if Pinochet were tried abroad. But having said that, the officials claim they are trying to signal to the Chilean government that it must "make the tough decisions it needs to" and pledge to try Pinochet itself. Of course, Pinochet has immunity at home, and no one thinks he would be put on trial there...
...conference continues tonight with an opening plenary on socialist campaigns with presentations by members of UNITE!. DSA activists will discuss socialism and how it relates to feminism, unionism and poverty...