The reason Westerners have been off base is because we have been misled by China's movement down the capitalist road.

The last few days have only made clear how bumpy Russia's trip down the capitalist road can be.

The paper dismissed what it called "the prescriptions of the capitalist road, of perestroika and bourgeois reformism," calling them "unacceptable to our people and party."

But like most Soviet showcases, Zil and its vehicles are now heading down the capitalist road.

"When everything else took the capitalist road of development, and medicine was left on the socialist road, we got an imbalance that is killing medicine."

The Ligachev clique, now maneuvered out of its counterbalancing position, still has a powerful argument against taking the capitalist road.

"All of modern Chinese history has demonstrated that China can travel only the socialist road, not the capitalist road," the article began.

Deng's stress on the priority of scientific and technical development was condemned by the radicals as "taking the capitalist road."

Communism is producing political suppression while its capitalist road requires economic belt-tightening and its social policy limits families to one child.

But the capitalist road to a good education has not been smooth.