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‎China, political science, atheistic communism, economic development and authoritarianism

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‎Atheistic Soviet Union and political science

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‎China, political science, atheistic communism, economic development and authoritarianism

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‎China, political science, atheistic communism, economic development and authoritarianism

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‎Chinese communism vs. Protestant work ethic

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 === China, political science, atheistic communism,  economic development and authoritarianism ===
-The ethnic Chinese in [[Taiwan]] and [[Singapore]] are ahead of atheistic, [[communism|communist]] China in terms of economic and social development of its overall society by at least 50 years.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAuXOoiMckM China: Friend or Foe?]</ref>  The atheistic, political scientists in China are of a marked lower caliber.
+The ethnic Chinese in [[Taiwan]] and [[Singapore]] are ahead of atheistic, [[communism|communist]] China in terms of economic development by at least 50 years.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAuXOoiMckM China: Friend or Foe?]</ref>  The atheistic, political scientists in China are of a marked lower caliber.
 Much of China's population is still poor and like most atheistic, communist countries, China is authoritarian (see: [[Atheism and authoritarianism]] and [[Atheism and communism]]).

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 Few, if any, [[Political science|political scientists]] predicted early on that [[Donald Trump]] would win the Republican primary and then would subsequently be elected president of the United States. Furthermore, most pollsters indicated that Trump would lose the election.
-In 2019, John Feffer wrote at the [[leftism|left]] leaning'''  ''[[The Nation]]'':
+In 2019, John Feffer wrote at the [[leftism|left]] leaning''' ''[[The Nation]]'':
 {{Cquote|In the Americas, the [[Trump]] [[tsunami]] has swept across both continents and the 'pink tide' of [[progressivism]] has all but disappeared from the southern half of the hemisphere...

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 {{Cquote|What has changed during these two decades? How is it possible that the Soviet Union has almost exactly the same area of arable and permanent crop land per head of the population as has the United States, namely 0.89 hectares (2.2 acres), and cannot feed its population adequately, whereas U.S. agriculture not only supplies the population with one of the richest diets in the world but in addition supplies more food for export than any other country?<ref>[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/1982-03-01/soviet-agricultures-dependence-west Soviet Agriculture's Dependence on the West] By Karl-Eugen Wädekin, ''Foreign Affairs'', 1982</ref>}}
-The Soviet Union collapsed. The atheistic political scientists in the Soviet Union were of a low calibre in terms of developing a functional political system.
+The Soviet Union collapsed. The atheistic political scientists in the Soviet Union were of a low caliber in terms of developing a functional political system.
 == See also ==

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 === China, political science, atheistic communism,  economic development and authoritarianism ===
-The ethnic Chinese in [[Taiwan]] and [[Singapore]] are ahead of atheistic, [[communism|communist]] China in terms of economic and social development of its overall society by at least 50 years.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAuXOoiMckM China: Friend or Foe?]</ref>  The atheistic, political scientists in China are of a marked lower calibre.
+The ethnic Chinese in [[Taiwan]] and [[Singapore]] are ahead of atheistic, [[communism|communist]] China in terms of economic and social development of its overall society by at least 50 years.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAuXOoiMckM China: Friend or Foe?]</ref>  The atheistic, political scientists in China are of a marked lower caliber.
 Much of China's population is still poor and like most atheistic, communist countries, China is authoritarian (see: [[Atheism and authoritarianism]] and [[Atheism and communism]]).

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 === China, political science, atheistic communism,  economic development and authoritarianism ===
-The ethnic Chinese in [[Taiwan]] and [[Singapore]] are ahead of atheistic, [[communism|communist]] China in terms of economic and social development of its overall society by at least 50 years.  The atheistic, political scientists in China are of a marked lower calibre.
+The ethnic Chinese in [[Taiwan]] and [[Singapore]] are ahead of atheistic, [[communism|communist]] China in terms of economic and social development of its overall society by at least 50 years.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAuXOoiMckM China: Friend or Foe?]</ref>  The atheistic, political scientists in China are of a marked lower calibre.
 Much of China's population is still poor and like most atheistic, communist countries, China is authoritarian (see: [[Atheism and authoritarianism]] and [[Atheism and communism]]).

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 In this planet-wide rising tide of [[right-wing populism]], the [[liberal]] left commands only a few disconnected islands — [[Iceland]], [[Mexico]], [[New Zealand]], [[South Korea]], [[Spain]], [[Uruguay]]... Worse, crafty operators with even more ambitious agendas stand ready to destroy the liberal status quo once and for all."<ref>[https://www.thenation.com/article/tom-dispatch-combatting-the-new-right/ Combating the New Right] by John Feffer, ''The Nation'', May 13, 2019</ref>}}
-Atheists political scientists largely failed to understand, much less predict, the rapid rise of [[right-wing nationalism]] in the world.
+Atheists political scientists largely failed to understand, much less predict, the rapid rise of [[right-wing]] [[nationalism]] in the world.
 As noted above, 27 percent of American political scientists believe in the existence of God. On the other hand, 76 percent of American doctors said they believe in God.<ref>

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	Few, if any, [[Political science\|political scientists]] predicted early on that [[Donald Trump]] would win the Republican primary and then would subsequently be elected president of the United States. Furthermore, most pollsters indicated that Trump would lose the election.		Few, if any, [[Political science\|political scientists]] predicted early on that [[Donald Trump]] would win the Republican primary and then would subsequently be elected president of the United States. Furthermore, most pollsters indicated that Trump would lose the election.
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		+	In 2019, John Feffer wrote at the [[leftism\|left]] leaning''' ''[[The Nation]]'':
		+	{{Cquote\|In the Americas, the [[Trump]] [[tsunami]] has swept across both continents and the 'pink tide' of [[progressivism]] has all but disappeared from the southern half of the hemisphere...
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		+	In this planet-wide rising tide of [[right-wing populism]], the [[liberal]] left commands only a few disconnected islands — [[Iceland]], [[Mexico]], [[New Zealand]], [[South Korea]], [[Spain]], [[Uruguay]]... Worse, crafty operators with even more ambitious agendas stand ready to destroy the liberal status quo once and for all."<ref>[https://www.thenation.com/article/tom-dispatch-combatting-the-new-right/ Combating the New Right] by John Feffer, ''The Nation'', May 13, 2019</ref>}}
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		+	Atheists political scientists largely failed to understand, much less predict, the rapid rise of [[right-wing nationalism]] in the world.

	As noted above, 27 percent of American political scientists believe in the existence of God. On the other hand, 76 percent of American doctors said they believe in God.<ref>		As noted above, 27 percent of American political scientists believe in the existence of God. On the other hand, 76 percent of American doctors said they believe in God.<ref>

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 Atheism is a part of Marxist-Leninist and [[Mao Zedong|Maoist]]/Chinese [[communism|communist]] ideology (See: [[Atheism and communism]]).
-On the other hand, the atheist and [[Harvard University]] historian [[Niall Ferguson]] declared: "Through a mixture of hard work and thrift the [[Protestantism|Protestant]] societies of the North and West Atlantic achieved the most rapid economic growth in history."<ref>[http://blog.tifwe.org/the-protestant-work-ethic-alive-well-in-china/ The Protestant Work Ethic: Alive & Well…In China] By Hugh Whelchel on September 24, 2012</ref>
+On the other hand, the atheist and [[Harvard University]] historian [[Niall Ferguson]] declared: "Through a mixture of hard work and thrift the [[Protestantism|Protestant]] societies of the North and West Atlantic achieved the most rapid economic growth in history."<ref>[http://blog.tifwe.org/the-protestant-work-ethic-alive-well-in-china/ The Protestant Work Ethic: Alive & Well…In China] By Hugh Whelchel on September 24, 2012</ref>  See: [[Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]]
 In [[China]], the growth in religion has accompanied China’s fast economic growth over the last twenty years.<ref>[http://blog.tifwe.org/the-protestant-work-ethic-alive-well-in-china/ The Protestant Work Ethic: Alive & Well…In China] By Hugh Whelchel on September 24, 2012</ref> Christianity is seeing rapid growth in China and the historian Niall Ferguson attributes this recent economic growth to the Protestant work ethic being more incorporated into Chinese society.<ref>[http://blog.tifwe.org/the-protestant-work-ethic-alive-well-in-china/ The Protestant Work Ethic: Alive & Well…In China] By Hugh Whelchel on September 24, 2012</ref> See also: [[Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism|Protestant work ethic]] and [[Growth of Christianity in China]]