[weikel]

People were greedy in the Middle Ages and under Soviet Communism the economic system changes the rules it doesn't change human nature. Capitalism conforms best with human nature and for nature to be harnessed it must be obeyed.

[Askel5]

the economic system changes the rules it doesn't change human nature.

George H. Bush and the rest of the capitalists banking on the "saving graces of Western Materialism" will be sorry to hear you say that.

They fully expect it to transform China, believe it or not.

(And they continue to believe -- for what reason, I have no idea -- that the "former communists" of the Soviet Union were likewise transformed. Ha!)