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...than a handshake. Though the Germans rarely strike (only 34 strikes all last year), the French have a way of striking at any time without warning; wildcat walkouts are especially prevalent in Britain, where the courts have little power to intervene. U.S. businessmen are often taken aback by the anti-capitalist polemics, greater militance and puzzling multiplicity of the labor unions. The British have 190 unions, and a company such as Ford must negotiate with more than 20 on each contract go-round. In France three welders working side by side may belong to three different unions...
...Brecht himself who nearly ruined the film, for between 1928, when he wrote the play, and 1931, when G. W. Pabst commissioned him to work on the film script, Brecht's interest in Marxism had become a strong conviction, and he wanted the film turned into an anti-capitalist diatribe...
This point of view, amounting in some instances almost to a sort of folklore, has come to be known as the anti-capitalist attitude. In San Francisco last week, in a succession of thoughtful, analytical speeches, representatives from the underdeveloped nations explained some of the reasons behind the attitude...
Misconceptions & Misunderstandings. "The existence of the so-called anti-capitalist attitude," said Miguel Cuaderno, governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines, "may be attributed to misconceptions, or to the lack of understanding of the conditions, motives and aspirations of the people in the newly developing countries of the world. Considering the magnitude of the capital needed by underdeveloped areas, it is surprising that some of these less-developed countries appear to be reluctant or even opposed to foreign investment. This attitude has given rise to the belief that these countries are anti-capitalist...
...asked, should the freedom-loving people of some underdeveloped countries entertain any misgivings about the capitalist or free-enterprise system?" The chief reason, said Cuaderno, is that they remember the years of foreign domination under the colonial system. Actually, said Cuaderno, the underdeveloped countries are not anti-capitalist at all; they are just nationalistic−and understandably so. They want to be the bosses of their own industries. They prefer loans from foreign governments to foreign investments because they see less danger of losing control of their plants. Cuaderno's own partial solution: foreign investment on a joint-venture...