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NEARLY 30 years ago the “death of communism” was announced following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the much-quoted words of the right-wing commentator Francis Fukuyama it was “the end of history,” it marked “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”
Now it appears that, maybe after all, just like the great anti-imperialist writer Mark Twain, reports of communism’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
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