Foreign News: Tigers Borrowing Pigs

The Communist masters of China are having trouble with the peasants. Those who must farm the land to feed the world's most populous country do not seem to have got the idea at all. In fact, most of them suffer from "spontaneous tendencies toward capitalism." Others, unable to see the logic of increasing output or wealth only to have to give it up to government confiscators, are now afflicted, say the propagandists, with the delusion that poverty is best.

Private party reports, filtered out through Hong Kong last week, told in the Communists' own...

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