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...Democrats. It may be that conservatives just don't take governance as seriously as liberals do, and therefore have more freedom to maneuver. Didn't Reagan say government was "the problem, not the solution"? The very notion of planning for the common good, especially long-term planning, seems vaguely ... socialist, doesn't it? The Bush Administration is filled with hard-charging executives but bereft of meat-and-potatoes managers. Not much priority is placed on pedestrian things like delivering the ice to New Orleans or keeping the peace in Baghdad...
...isolation. Now Kim, perhaps fearful that private enterprise and greater contact with the outside world would undermine his power, seems to have reversed course. Earlier this month, Pyongyang banned sales of grain in the country's recently legalized farmers' markets and announced a return to the old socialist system of government-controlled rice handouts. Private grain markets were just a stop-gap measure necessitated by a few bad harvests, according to the North Korean official in charge of our group, Choe Jong Hun. "Now we have a good harvest and we are able to feed ourselves," said Choe. "There...
...powers. Of course, America's Founding Father heroes have warts of their own. (George Washington was imperious; John Adams was a grouch; Thomas Jefferson had that affair.) But as recent biographies have made apparent, Mao was not merely ruthless but his ruthlessness is practically unmatched in history. If iconic, socialist-chic Mao once seemed cuddlier than, say, Stalin, the record now makes clear they were rivals in brutality. Both men, through murder and misrule, were responsible for tens of millions of deaths...
Confusion has a hold on the largest country of the European Union even two weeks after national elections were held. Never in memory did Germans face such ambiguous results: neither of the two main parties, the center-right Union of Christian Democrats (CDU) and the incumbent Socialist Party (SPD), has achieved the majority required to lead the country, even in coalition with their respective traditional partners, the Liberals for the CDU and the Greens for the SPD. And yet this was an election with a seemingly clear ideological divide: liberal reform to shake Germany out of its economic...
...made $10 an hour and tried to live in Boston, you’d be fighting to organize, too,” said Socialist Alternative member Johnhenry R. “Hank” Gonzalez...