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In France--a prism through which modern society has often been seen and analyzed--many radicals who espouse revolutionary Marxism to break the shackles of an exploitative, capitalistic order, look askance to this optimistic prognostication. The radicals suspect that this justification of the perpetuation of the status quo is just...
Herein lies the paradox. The economic prosperity that those defending the bourgeois consensus used as testimony to vindicate capitalistic elements in French society, in turn, gave rise to a clearer delineation between those who owned the means of production and those who did not. The peasantry and the displaced aristocracy...
An eventual evolution to a socialist society is inevitable in France. The question remains whether this will come about through revolution or reform. French bourgeois governments have historically failed to take the necessary steps to allow socialists and communists to take over the reins of government peacefully. If the left...
Ben Bella is still invisible, but now he is living in enforced leisure under the careful eye of Boumedienne's guards. The man Boumedienne regarded as an impossibly fuzzy-minded romantic who was leading Algeria to economic chaos is now 61 and, by all accounts, the very model of...
In the kibbutzim, men call the tune and fill almost all of the important jobs. Writes Hazleton: "Sexual polarization is by now so deep on the kibbutz that not even the extreme crisis of war can induce women to work in production." Instead, women are cozily content with minor roles...