Cultures Paper\Sources

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Title: Find More Like This'Chinese Capitalism' or 'Socialism with Specific Chinese Features'? Authors: Deliusin, Lev Source: Problems of Economic Transition; Jul94, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p24, 21p Document Type: Article Subject Terms: *ECONOMIC policy

• ECONOMIC reform

CHINA CHINA -- Politics & government Abstract: Discusses the reform process in China. Capitalism; Open and closed socialism; Political reform. ISSN: 1061-1991 Accession Number: 7302584 Persistent link to this record: http://0-search.ebscohost.com.charlotte.delco.lib.pa.us:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=7302584&site=ehost-live Database Business Source Premier

(pdf, saved on my computer)

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The Real Menace to Capitalism. Authors: Johnson, Alvin1 Source: American Journal of Economics & Sociology; Oct50, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p12-12, 1p Document Type: Article Subject Terms: *CENTRAL planning

• FEUDALISM
• FREE enterprise
• POLITICAL doctrines
• ECONOMIC structure

CIVILIZATION, Medieval Abstract: The article informs that the reason for the failure of feudalism was its failure to maintain its social function. Originally the feudal lord was the military protector of the people on whose work he lived, their arbitrator and judge. He recognized that the old and infirm and the orphaned children merited his concern and succour. But with the advance of the absolute monarchy the feudal lord developed by imperceptible degrees to the position of landlord, often absentee landlord. His dependents became tenants, paying such rents as the landlord's stewards could extract and carrying their own disabilities and sorrows as best they could. The way was being paved for the French Revolution and the series of reforms and revolutions culminating in the Russian Revolution, still making progress in the world, sapping away at Italy and China. Capitalism, at the outset, did not even pretend to a social function. Capitalism recognizes the desperate need of an adequate function. It has found it in Management. We hear less and less of the relations of labor and capital. Author Affiliations: 1New School for Social Research. ISSN: 0002-9246 Accession Number: 15392014 Persistent link to this record: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=15392014&site=ehost-live Database Business Source Premier {pdf on my computer)

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http://0-web.ebscohost.com.charlotte.delco.lib.pa.us/ehost/detail?vid=28&hid=8&sid=2e10a77b-aa9d-4b61-8019-6a3959872fd8%40SRCSM2 Title: Dubai, and good luck, Washington Times, The (DC), 07328494, Mar 18, 2006 Database: Newspaper Source

Dubai, and good luck

Section: COMMENTARY, pg. A13

In retrospect, America went collectively insane over the possibility a company owned by Dubai's government would operate several of our ports.

Rarely has reason been so routed by pure emotion. Dubai is a Westernizing state that long ago left the eighth century and accepts the modern world of globalized commerce and finance. This member of the United Arab Emirates has - especially after September 11, 2001 - passed on intelligence, hosted our fleet and provided a Gulf foothold near Iraq and Iran.

No doubt some members of its extended government, as is true of many of the Gulf monarchies, have triangulated against the U.S. But then so have China, Russia and most of Europe.

Yet if we are to win this war against radical Islam, it will be by drawing the Arab world into the global system of Western jurisprudence, politics and business. The perceived defamation of a proven Arab consortium only hurts our cause.

To understand the fiasco, we must allot blame to almost everyone involved. A Republican administration - almost daily accused of talking down to "the people" - somehow feels no need to reveal how its own familiar world of transnational corporations works. Much less does anyone on Olympus explain to us mere mortals below why our long-term strategic interests would remain safe with ports owned by Dubai's government.

The result of still more of this Harriet-Meyers "trust me" approach was the ports deal pilloried as near traitorous by prairie-fire conservative talk radio, blogs and cable news. The administration apparently never thought the hyped caricature of Arabs guiding cranes on our docks would prove good fodder.

Meanwhile, the Democrats, who have lectured us ad nauseam about ethnic stereotyping, couldn't resist the political opening. So they jettisoned this old sensitivity to score jingoist points by suggesting an Arab fifth column theoretically could gain control of our ports.

It was surreal to hear multicultural guru Sen. Hillary Clinton, New York Democrat, lecture us about the dangers of these Gulf middlemen - even as her huckstering husband advised the United Arab Emirates how to finesse the U.S. Congress.

The American public was supposedly outraged that an Arab country would oversee the operation of its major ports. Yet did we have a clue that a Chinese company took over operation of Panama Canal ports during the Clinton administration? Do most realize the People's Republic has amassed such a pile of U.S. dollars it soon will control the financial solvency of the U.S.?

If we are truly worried about autonomy, consider that our entire southern border with Mexico is nearly wide open. Or that former politicians like Vin Weber and Bob Dole (who also has a wife in the Senate) get richer thanks to their connections to Gulf State sheikdoms.

For a country addicted to imported oil, hooked on cheap imported goods and eager for illegal alien labor, and which has hundreds of military bases abroad, it is a little late to worry about dangerous foreign ganglia.

The port deal reveals deeper pathologies than the hypocrisy of our politicians and ignorance of the public. A now hyper-media is fueled by a 24-hour news cycle - regardless of whether there is enough earth-shattering news to justify thousands of salaried telejournalists. And 2006 is an election year, in which Democrats see advantage and Republicans fear losses.

More importantly, the Dubai port deal shows how at odds are American perceptions and reality. For the last half-century, we have lived in a complex, interconnected world of mutual reliance. Soon we will import more food than we grow. We already burn more oil than we pump. For years we have bought more than we export, and we borrow far more than we lend.

To justify these precarious dependencies, America assures foreign business leaders, investors and lenders that our markets remain open and immune to the distortions of xenophobia and provincialism.

Americans may not like that devil's bargain, but it was made long ago and, for better or worse, we are long past being an agrarian republic. The resulting singular affluence of the American consumer derives from just these tradeoffs in our autonomy - and the trust we receive from those who loan and sell us things we cannot immediately pay for. So rejecting the Dubai port deal is not only hypocritical, but in the end, dumb.

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author, most recently, of "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War."

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Source: Washington Times, The (DC), Mar 18, 2006 Item: 4KB20060319212120

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Westernizing Russia and China. Authors: Mandelbaum, Michael Source: Foreign Affairs; May/Jun97, Vol. 76 Issue 3, p80-95, 16p, 1bw Document Type: Article Subject Terms: INTERNATIONAL relations Abstract: Compares the foreign policy of Russia and China, two most important countries for United States. Reason for their importance in the United States; Challenge that Russia and China posed; Friction between the United States, and on Russia and China; Nationalist foreign policy; Claims to territories of Russia and China; How can Russia and China be encouraged to defer acting on claims that are believed to involve their sovereign rights. ISSN: 0015-7120 Accession Number: 9708253358 Persistent link to this record: http://0-search.ebscohost.com.charlotte.delco.lib.pa.us:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=9708253358&site=ehost-live Database MasterFILE Premier (pdf on my computer)