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The Catalog is divided into sections, as most catalogs are. In Whole Earth they are Understanding Whole Systems, Shelter and Land Use, Industry and Craft, Communications. Community, Nomadics, and Learning. Whole Earth is a large book and opens up places you never thought of entering. The section on Understanding Whole...
Information on every kind of tool and trade and new idea is listed, from organic gardening to Moog synthesizers. It tells you where to learn about hitch-hiking, tantra art, the domain of man, and altered states of consciousness. You hear of magazines that give you earth beauty and ones...
We are also informed that in the upshot "development policy is consistently biased... against revolution as a means." Among the principal revolutions of current interest are those of a communist sort, and Western economists no doubt do tend to be unenthusiastic about such revolutions.
According to Webster's. however, a "bias" is a "prejudice," and if Bowles and MacEwan mean anything by their allegation it must be that the Western economist is not only predisposed against communist revolutions, but that the predisposition is indefensible. It should be observed, therefore, that such a predisposition might...
Prisons, torture, suppression of free speech and press are unhappily not unknown in non-communist countries either, and some thinking people still contend that Stalin was better than Hitler, though as more becomes known about Stalin the difference seems to become less and less clear. It may be hoped, however...