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...government will keep control of a few strategic industries like steel and armaments. But it will otherwise relinquish the common ownership of production that has underpinned the Communist Party's claim that China is still a socialist nation. However much elders of the party might flinch at the crumbling of their faith, Jiang is sure to win endorsement from the 15th Party Congress, meeting for seven days in the capital to set the country's agenda for the next five years. The inefficient and money-losing businesses have become such a burden that the leadership can no longer...
...living in socialist Tanzania in the '70s taught Museveni just how flawed communism was. "Lenin talked only about money going out," he says. "He didn't talk about the wages a company paid that stayed inside the country, or the money paid for power and light, or the raw materials it bought or the taxes it paid. Lenin missed this." Even more important, Museveni saw firsthand that nationalized enterprises didn't work. "Communal property was nobody's property," he says. "So nobody worked. The problem was motivation. None of these fellows had a stake." He opens his eyes wide...
Because he despises failure, Museveni converted to capitalism. Africa needed to create wealth, he decided, and for that, nothing beat Adam Smith. Private enterprise was quite simply the most suitable means of modernization. Yet he remains at heart a socialist who would prefer a more egalitarian system. Although he understands how the economic world works today and he wants Uganda to be part of it, he does not really admire it. Even now, he calls Uganda's capitalists "cows for the state to milk...
...then, Communist filmmakers tried entertaining the masses with what the official press derisively called "the most flagrant offspring of the capitalist pleasure industry": musical comedies. East Side Story is the history of that glorious, doomed attempt to create an all-singing, all-dancing genre within the unsmiling dictates of socialist realism...
...gore and glory that was Rome, should certainly express regret for the intemperate sack of Carthage. (Reparations optional.) Congress could withhold aid to Egypt until the Mubarak government sheds a few public tears for holding the ancient Israelites in bondage. And isn't it high time the new socialist government of France admitted it was a mite sorry for the heedlessness that left Louis XVI headless...