"Unless China can create a real middle class, it will be just another capitalist dictatorship".
So goes the risk of permitting a capitalist dictatorship to play host to the Olympics in the hope that it will change its repressive ways once the whole world is watching.
Hitchens was never a Stalinist, but he stayed loyal to an intellectual Trotskyist view of the Bolshevik revolution, which honoured Lenin and blamed Stalin for deforming the revolution into a state-capitalist dictatorship.
Both capitalist democracies and dictatorships use political means to concentrate wealth, power and privilege.
Here his spiritual beliefs were crucial: the assumption, in particular, that, regardless of the regime people lived under — democracy or dictatorship, capitalist or socialist — they always possessed a freedom of conscience, an inner capacity to make moral choices in everyday life.
How otherwise to explain the harsh condemnations of the new catechisms of Central and South America, where the Catholic Church was allied with the Marxists against the abuses of dictatorships and capitalist oligarchies?
Observers in the audience predicted that China's combination of communist dictatorship with capitalist exploitation would appeal to Fox.
Instead, the emphasis falls more on changing the organization of production, replacing the top-down, undemocratic dictatorship inside capitalist enterprises with the horizontal, workers' self-direction of cooperatives.
Between the wars it was the self-description of rural populists in Eastern Europe and was a favorite buzzword of Fascist intellectuals everywhere -- Fascism being the third way between capitalist anarchy and Communist dictatorship.
He came to interpret Cuba's problems as an integral part of capitalist society, or the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie", rather than the failings of corrupt politicians.
