西方的左派，也開始紛紛猜疑：在東方的威權主義式資本主義，比起原本在自由民主架構下的資本主義，顯得更有效率、更具活力、更富「競爭力」的時候，關於「現代性危機」的診斷，恐怕也必須調整切入點和批判策略了。
人們開始察覺，這才是我們所身處的歷史局勢中「現代性」的真正危機：如果任由當下的世界格局按照目前的趨勢繼續發展下去，剝離民主的資本主義，就會成了現代性的唯一歸宿。
——《我們這個時代的平庸之惡》
http://blog.roodo.com/poiesis/archives/20052324.html
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Faced with today's explosion of capitalism in China, analysts often ask when political democracy as the "natural" political accompaniment of capitalism will enforce itself. But what if the promised democratization never arrives? What if China's authoritarian capitalism is not a stop on the road to further democratization, but the end state toward which the rest of the world is headed?
Leon Trotsky once characterized tsarist Russia as "the vicious combination of the Asian knout [whip] and the European stock market," but the description applies even better to today's China. In the Chinese iteration, the combination may prove to be a more stable one than the democratic capitalist model we have come to see as natural.

這兩天我和小雨拔才討論著，雖然喝醉打人不對，可是依比例原則，新聞討論之熱烈、之大、之久有點不太尋常，大家來猜猜看，猛打Ma小姐是為了......
（一）政府媒體轉移大眾對美牛叩關的焦點，為了政經考量準備悄悄通過？！
（二）MIT國民服飾品牌與媒體達成和解，轉移大眾的砲火攻擊與情感傷害？！

不管是哪一個，我都不想當冤大頭！

這兩篇文章歡迎大家轉載～
（一）關於開放美牛，一個媽媽的感想！
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/sida700514/34640045
（二）Lativ 與「台灣製造」：一場不美麗的誤會
http://blog.roodo.com/poiesis/archives/18896472.html

@Portnoy: 請大家也不要忘記這些立委投不得 http://blog.roodo.com/poiesis/archives/15826903.html