Is the Chinese state a dictatorship or an enlightened meritocracy? The once-in-a-decade leadership transition in Beijing has raised this question.
- Wed
- May 22, 2013
- Updated: 10:48pm
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Peter Ng Bik-kuen's well-bred youngster Expedience showed he is progressing nicely with another forward barrier trial on the Sha Tin turf yesterday.
Highlights of the book fair:
Ulysses by James Joyce. First edition. Paris, Shakespeare and Co, 1922 (HK$3.38 million)
Professor Zhang Xuezhong is risking his teaching position at the East China University of Political Science and Law by not issuing a retraction to his article 'China needs to remove Marxism',...
Political parties championing the cause of the working class are commonplace throughout the world. But in Hong Kong, where the income gap is widening like a surging river breaking its banks, not a...
Reporters at the NPC got a surprise when they asked entrepreneurs from Zhejiang what Karl Max would think of them. 'He would be proud that China has prospered so well following his ideology,' said...
A 10,000-word work report being written ahead of the 16th Communist Party Congress will discuss the sensitive issue of a class system but is likely to play down Karl Marx's views on labour surplus...
Simon Pritchard (article headlined 'For sale: one slightly used ideology, South China Morning Post, July 4) is right.
Many people these days do Karl Marx an injustice. They regard his 19th century formalisation of communist thought as wrong on every count. It was not. He had a very keen appreciation of the social...
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