To: AIG
"You fear China more as a capitalist country than as a communist country?"
I fear China more as a capitalist dictatorship than as a communist dictatorship.
To: applemac_g4
Amen, but they still have their communist tendancies at heart IMHO. They have just gotten a little wiser and found a new proletariat to milk ... us!
They know that continuing to milk their own people will only lead to bankruptcy ala the Soviet Union. So, they are using some very smart market driven strategioes (IMHO) to accomplish the same end. When they reach the point where they think it is self-funding, self-surviving ... they will move to eject us from the equation and attempt to complete their rise to dominance.
FRegards.
To: applemac_g4
Most Western countries themselves were capitalist dictatorships before the American and French Revolutions, particularly during the period of the "enlightened despots" in the 1700's who promoted uniform property rights, rule of law, etc. which set the stage for capitalism to flourish more efficiently, allowed a middle-class to develop, and allowed the "bourgeois" classes to instigate both the French and American Revolutions and bring about modern, capitalist society as we know it. In other words, "capitalist dictatorships" aren't that bad and seem to be a necessary transitional stage on the road to majority middle-class population which is the basis of a stable, modern democracy. Most of today's Third World democracies are jokes because they never developed majority middle-class populations. The E. Asian "tigers" like Taiwan, S. Korea, etc. all developed majority middle-class populations first under one-party, authoritarian rule over the past 50 years before making the leap to full-fledged democracy.
107 posted on
07/20/2002 10:22:04 PM PDT by
AIG
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