The coming Glorious Revolution

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue Apr 3 19:53:36 PDT 2001



>On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Peter van Heusden wrote:
>
>> Anyway, Russia as another China doesn't do much to answer the questions
>> I raised.
>
>My point is that a culture of 1.3 billion people which is boldly defying
>the rule of Wall Street -- and getting away with it -- might just have a
>few things to teach the rest of the world about how to resist
>neoliberalism. Shanghai these days is a gigantic open-air spawning grounds
>for export-platform lizards; nothing but chip fabs and electronics firms
>as far as the eye can see. If it had a government interested in
>long-term development instead of safeguarding the pocketbooks of the
>oligarchs, Russia could be raising packs of Eurolizards, Pikachu-style, in
>former KGB military factories.
>
>-- Dennis

Dengism & the market reform should be seen as a Chinese version of neoliberalism (= dismantling the iron rice bowls = destroying the welfare state).

Yoshie



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