Al Watan, Saudi Arabia Socialist America By Mohammed Hassan Alwan
Why are the Chinese moving toward capitalism after staging their biggest revolt in the name of socialism? Why are the Americans moving toward socialism after building their global glory on the foundation of capitalism?
In two simultaneous scenes this month, thousands of activists in the United States have occupied Wall Street, a symbol of capitalism, while China is strengthening its censorial control over its people from fear that the attitude of the Arab Spring will spread to the country. The protesters on Wall Street are demanding fair distribution of wealth, which means moving the economic median toward socialism. The Chinese have several economic demands — to free giant Chinese companies from government ownership and to reduce the government's control over means of production. This means moving the economic median in the direction of capitalism.
Of course, these coinciding events do not mean that there is a happy medium at which everything is resolved and complete justice is achieved. This midpoint cannot be defined, as it differs not only from society to society, but also between phases of time in the life of a single society. The demands of the Chinese, which seem legitimate and reasonable now, would not have seemed legitimate or logical at all after the Mao revolution of 1949. The people would have perceived these ideas as a cultural regression and a retreat to the feudal Dark Ages in a time when socialism was a pioneering and progressive ideology on which the people prided themselves. As for the protesters of Wall Street, perhaps if they had launched their movement in the middle of the last century, their fate would have been to face suspicion of socialism in a time in which McCarthy law predominated. The American Senator Joseph McCarthy injected the American nation with fear of socialism to the point that the country turned on its own people before the U.S. Congress stopped his campaign and silenced his propaganda.............................>>>>.......................>>>>...................http://watchingamerica.com/News/129125/socialist-america/
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