Burmese Way to Socialism
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The Burmese Way to Socialism (also known as the Burmese Road to Socialism) is the name of the ideology of Burmese ruler, Ne Win, who ruled the country from 1962 to 1988. It included such ideals as the nationalisation of industries, repression of minorities, and a police state. However, it also encouraged more unorthodox views. These included a severe isolationism, expulsion of foreigners, discouragement of tourists and closing off of the economy. Ne Win's ideology also encouraged "bona fide" religion to make the people more selfless. In practice this meant encouraging or forcing a state-sanctioned form of Buddhism, although initially it claimed to favour religion generally rather than any specific religion. In practice Ne Win also relied on numerology in his system,[citation needed] but this was not officially part of it.
It greatly increased poverty, isolation,[1][2] and is described as "disastrous".[3] Some say it increased domestic stability and keeping Burma from being as entangled in the Cold War struggles that affected other Southeast Asian nations.[4][5] Ne Win's later attempt to make the currency based in denominations divisible by 9, a number he considered lucky[6] proved purely negative and led the military to revolt. This caused the authoritarian "Burmese Way to Socialism" to be replaced by a new authoritarian system.
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- ^ Economic Development in Myanmar By Myat Thein pgs 4, 57-60
- ^ The Burmese Economy and the Withdrawal of European Trade Preferences, pgs 5-6
- ^ Economic Development of Burma: A Vision and a Strategy By Khin Maung Kyi, pg 2
- ^ [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-4687(196703)7%3A3%3C188%3ABDPTPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 "Burmese Domestic Policy: The Politics of Burmanization" by Robert A. Holmes Asian Survey, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Mar., 1967), pp. 188-197]
- ^ [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-4687(196902)9%3A2%3C104%3AB1-ANB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 "Burma: 1968 -- A New Beginning?" by Frank N. Trager Asian Survey, Vol. 9, No. 2, A Survey of Asia in 1968: Part II (Feb., 1969), pp. 104-114]
- ^ "Obituary: Ne Win". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1581413.stm.
- Burma---Growing Ever Darker Foreign Policy in Focus, September 11, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Nick Thompson of Stanford on Burma
- Feb 1996 report on Myanmar by the UN Commission on Human Rights
- Original article from the Revolutionary Council
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