In the city of Hong Kong, debates over the Chinese influence on the city's democratization is again raging. Want to raise some awareness by showing ppl a chapter of HK's democratization that ended because of Chinese intervention. Today, HK's legislative body is elected by 35 by geographic constituency (western-style proportional democracy) and 30 by functional constituency (rich people who represent companies voting for themselves and employees)

Hong Kong's last governor Baron Patten...

Animism is sometimes considered the earliest form of human religion. But what about before we started to think in terms of us vs. them (humans vs. animals), before we left the forests and evolved into our present forms? I'm currently reading The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology (2004) by William C. McGrew. The chapter on social culture mentions a very strange practice of male chimpanzees that borders...

It was a dawn of a new beginning. As the civil war ended, railroads expanded the entirety of the American landscape and rapid industrialization met its epoch; spurred by a new age of venture capitalism and finance. With growth that has remained unmatched in American history, through innovation, resources, and capital, America attracted immigrants and foreign investors eager to share in the prosperity. While there was plenty of prosperity and wealth, there was, however, also a disparity of wealth....

Were there commodity-money relations in the USSR?

We know that Lenin liked to compare socialism with one big factory. Was the USSR such a factory? In 1939 Stalin said about the total elimination of private industry. By this time, collective farms covered 93.5 percent of peasant households. All this economy functioned on a single plan.Collective farms, as well as state-owned enterprises, got a state plan on the main range of products. Most of products were delivered to the state....

The answer to "most educated people".


SOCIALISM OR STATE CAPITALISM? PART I

The theory of "state capitalism" in the Soviet Union is the attempt of the most simple explanation of shortcomings...