Capitalism and ‘Culturecide’

By artappraiser on Mon, 01/13/2020 - 1:54pm |

Guest op-ed by Ai Weiwei @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 13

Ai Weiwei is an internationally renowned artist who has been imprisoned in China; his views are always very "outside the box".

[....] China and Russia have shown how legacies of Communist authoritarianism can combine with predatory capitalism to build new political structures of daunting power. The world’s democracies have not figured out what to do about this even as they sense themselves falling behind or, worse, beginning to fit in. Traditional democratic values have begun to slip away. Economic and political trends reach beyond national borders, seem large and unstoppable, and are destroying values and ideals that human societies have evolved over centuries [.....]

URL:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/opinion/ai-weiwei-germany-china.html