Is she meant to be saying this?

[W. Kiernan]

Chris Burford wrote:
> 
>     ! ?
> 
> Chris Burford
> 
> London
> 
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> 
> Albright: Post-Soviet Life Tougher
> 
> Sunday January 30, 2000  2:50 pm
> 
> DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
> en route to Moscow for high-level talks, said Sunday that life
> in the former Soviet Union is often tougher for ordinary people
> now than under the Communists.
> 
> In a speech to the World Economic Forum, a gathering of scores
> of government leaders and hundreds of corporate executives,
> Albright said over the past decade life has become harder for
> many in former Soviet republics.
> 
> ``A majority of citizens in these countries have come to equate
> democracy with inequality, insecurity and the unraveling of the
> social fabric,'' she said.

I wish they'd printed more of that speech.  Does she suggest that
capitalism without democracy - what do you call that? - would be an
improvement?

Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net