Greed, the psychological (self-centered, narcissistic, and alienating) need to accumulate more and more wealth producing capital assets at the expense of others, is itself a product of, and is DRIVEN BY INSECURITY and FEAR. Shylock in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Scrooge in Dicken’s Christmas Carl, and Mr. Potter in This American Life are all self-centered, narcissistic, alienated icons representing the issue of greed in the annals of literature.

They both may embrace Communism as their form of government, but there have always been vast differences between Russia and China.  The brutal purist form of communism adopted by Mao Te Sung, the leader of the Chinese Revolution in the forties resulted in tens of millions of deaths.  The people