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For years, East-bloc officials have claimed that drug abuse did not exist in their countries, insisting that addiction was a product of "decadent" capitalism. Not anymore. In a dramatic about-face, Soviet and East European authorities have begun to crack down on drug suppliers, searching for ways to treat...
In the Philippines it is good money, a glittering tribute to capitalism in action. "I hate Communism," says one of the girls, when the subject is brought up. Politics is not a favorite topic of conversation.
Meanwhile, as static conquest of the air, the skyscraper multiplied the site, extruding a patch of earth into a stack of pure property: the abstract, universal sign of capitalism. The standardization of its floors invoked the image of the machine, like the use of bodies as mechanical parts in Busby...
This argument betrays the same foolish attitude that it is impossible to interfere with capitalism constructively, that we must choose between censorship and indifference. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The fact that Swedish workers are granted family allowances while Americans are not, in no way indicates that Swedish...
If sexist advertising, or any other problem facing capitalism, is to be combated, Americans must become more committed to political activism. Surely the first step is to recognize that indifference, not big government, is society's greatest economic enemy.