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Meaning what? The anarchist movement today is a sprawling welter of thousands of mostly young activists populating hundreds of mostly tiny splinter groups espousing dozens of mostly socialist critiques of the capitalist machine. Ironically, the groups are increasingly organized; the Pacific Northwest in particular, with its unionist past, grungy youth-culture present and ever Green future, is an anarchist hotbed. Add to that the hundreds of under-25ers from San Francisco to Vancouver who spent months learning nonviolent civil disobedience from groups like the Ruckus Society and the Direct Action Network. "The WTO," notes Ruckus Society coordinator Han Shan, "gave...
...Freyre concedes that trading with Castro, now 73, could prop him up in the short run. More important, she insists, is ensuring that his successor is market- and democracy-minded. And since Castro blames the embargo for worsening Cuba's moribund economy--a cover for his own socialist blunders and human-rights abuses--why not take away his alibi? Even Cuba's leading dissident, Elizardo Sanchez, agrees. "After the fall of the Soviet Union," he says, "the worst strategy to take against a closed society like Cuba is to tighten its isolation...
What's more, Cuba is no Shanghai. It is not an easy place to do business. Canadian and European executives warn that the island is an emerging market the way molasses is a river: the socialist bureaucracy is maddening; the military, headed by Castro's brother Raul, plays an inordinate role in business affairs; and some 85% of the wages that foreign companies pay impoverished Cuban workers (who make an average $15 a month) ends up in government coffers. Cuba's post-Soviet economy has made a comeback since it crashed in 1993, but the country has garnered less than...
...socialist, a communist or an anti-capitalist. I took Ec 10; I know all about the noble virtues of supply-side economics...
...relevancy of his films to everyday life is undoubtedly what causes the censors to choke. Brutal observations of dysfunctional personal and family life in modern China do not fit into the State's project of socialist utopia. By making films that force the Chinese to look into amirror of their own experiences, he seeks to "provoke Chinese people's thinking about their real lives and stir their memories of what has happened in the past." Yet even Zhang seems wary of his own medicine: he has not let his family see his films because watching them "invokes too much pain...