Word: socialists
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...Chileans went to the polls during his 18-month absence and returned to power the same Socialist party Pinochet had overthrown in his 1973 coup, and despite the moderation of new president Ricardo Lagos, who was briefly jailed under the dictatorship, his government is quite happy to see Pinochet on the defensive. "For the most part this is simply going through the motions of stripping Pinochet of his immunity and of his glory in order to correct the historical record," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Given his rapidly declining health he's unlikely ever to make...
...that socialism didn't work, that it produced a society in which, as the Soviets used to joke, they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work. In fact, socialism did work at one period in history: during the 1930s, and again in the '50s and '60s, socialist economies like that of the U.S.S.R. grew faster than their capitalist counterparts. But they stopped working sometime during the 1970s and '80s, just as Western capitalist societies were beginning to enter what we now call the information...
...there is another factor at work as well: globalization, along with the information-technology revolution that underpins it. A country that decides to opt for a heavy-handed, government-controlled economy will find itself falling further and further behind countries that are economically freer. Formerly, it was possible for socialist countries to close themselves off from the rest of the world, content that they had achieved social justice even if their economies appeared to be stagnating. But with more information, your citizens simply know too much about the living standards, culture and alternative approaches of other societies. Since the world...
...have said many times in your books that Eugene Debs is a hero of yours. I actually was up all night writing a paper about punishment and prisons, and I used quite a few quotes from Debs. Do you think there is any hope for the socialist movement outside of small, liberal, intellectual societies...
...bless the union and walk away. Furious French leftists--who derailed earlier government plans to lower the tax rate on stock-option earnings from 40% to 26%--responded with an unsuccessful campaign to hike the tax rate an additional 10 percentage points, to 50%. A subsequent report by two socialist legislators recommended that the option tax rate be lowered, but also proposed new requirements for companies to open the books on executives' compensation--details that most French firms have long preferred to keep secret...