Word: aron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repressive Communist dictatorships, constitutional republics and hereditary monarchies. Socialism is a flag of convenience that accommodates technocrats and market-minded economists, that allows fascist-type dictators or small-time Bonapartes to perpetuate themselves in power. It is politically chic to use the socialist label. Observes French Political Philosopher Raymond Aron: "In most countries, socialism carries the connotation that whatever is good is socialist, whatever is bad originates in capitalism." Adds Nobel-Prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman: "[For many], socialism implies egalitarianism and that people are living for society, while capitalism has been given the connotation of materialism, 'greedy,' 'selfish,' 'self-serving...
Western social democracies, burgeoning bureaucracies will probably be viewed by voters as acceptable trade-offs for the security provided by a welfare state. As for the U.S.S.R.'s East bloc satellites, Aron concludes: "I find that there are no grounds for thinking that the leaderships of the Hungarian, Polish or Czechoslovak parties, once freed from the grasp of Soviet Russia, would convert to freedom of their own accord and renounce all, or important parts, of their power. As long as the Red Army tanks assure the permanence of their reign, they improve their brand image in the eyes...
...many analysts wonder about the sincerity of the conversion. Warns French Pundit Aron: "As long as these parties resemble an army of militants under the authority of a few, as long as they are prepared to do an about-turn either to the right or left when so ordered, no one will take even their most solemn declarations literally." Even if the Berlinguers are sincere, it is far from certain that once they are in office their views would continue to prevail over those of their colleagues, many of whom are Stalinists...
...every major party candidate-until an outcry in other papers forced Figaro to relent. Last month Hersant invited 2,000 Figaro subscribers in Neuilly, the Paris suburb he wants to represent in the assembly, to a lavish champagne buffet. In protest against Hersant's abuse of Figaro, Raymond Aron and Jean d'Ormesson, two pillars of the French intellectual establishment, resigned as top editors of the paper and criticized the publisher in print...
...They blame it for inflation and unemployment and think it's time for a change." Political Scientist Raymond Aron concurred: "The left has not necessarily lost the election. The country is in a bad mood and tired of seeing the same faces in government. Indeed, the Socialists might even get more votes if they are not linked to the Communists...