At 08:18 AM 12/7/00 -0800, you wrote:
>And if one person owns literally *everything*, the way that, say, Mao
>Zedong once owned mainland China through that Absolutist-style holding
>company otherwise known as the CCP?

as I've argued before, Mao didn't have complete control. He had to respond 
to the power and influence of CCP cadres, while the fact that his power was 
originally based on a peasant revolution limited his power.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

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