The Awakening of the Soviet Union
The Russian people do have a chance and a future — once Communism is finally relegated to the “dustbin of history.”
The Russian people do have a chance and a future — once Communism is finally relegated to the “dustbin of history.”
State legislatures have no more business holding hearings on Caller ID than on whether Crest toothpaste should come in a tube or a pump.
China’s turmoil and tragedy are almost certainly far from over.
Sometimes creative understanding and interpretation of the present and the past can offer insightful suggestions about possible developments in the future.
Professor Williams demonstrates is that apartheid is not an example of capitalism but something much more akin to a mercantilist-interventionist state, in which government bestows privileges, favors, and monopoly positions on a select group at the expense of others in the society.
Rights arise out of the nature of man; as Ayn Rand has explained, they are “conditions of existence required by man’s nature for his proper survival.” They are not gifts of the state, or permissions, to be withdrawn at any time.
Having forcefully hailed the demise of socialism abroad, the President’s message was that America’s greatness would be assured by more, or at least continued, socialism at home.
RICO is so broad that prosecutors have been able to use it as the basis for bringing crushing, criminal proceedings against purely legitimate businesses.
And now at the end of the 20th century, when the world is turning away from socialism and the idea of government planning, has the United States even suggested the privatization of one of its largest socialist enterprises? No. Instead, the U.S. government will completely transfer state ownership of the canal to the Panamanian government in the year 2000. Such is the conduct of the global bulwark of capitalism.