Word: capitalisme
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If so, capitalism faces a devastating problem. If businessmen are motivated simply by the pursuit of profit and are willing to use any means at their disposal, then perhaps the free market ought to be abolished.
IT SEEMS SAFE to say, however, that Kilbourne's audience, and most other Americans for that matter, do not want to do away with capitalism. What's disturbing about this attitude is not that Americans are capitalists, but that they equate capitalism with a laissez-faire economy.
"It's capitalism," she said. "It's a legaltransaction where they rent out the space likeanyone else."
The Soviet Union has long unofficially condoned elements of capitalism in its nominally all-Communist society. Craftsmen and professionals regularly moonlight to supplement their state-regulated salaries. The practice is called nalevo (working "to the left"). Last week the Supreme Soviet made much nalevo legal by passing a law that...
Weakland is best known as the head of the committee that wrote a pastoral letter on moral failings in U.S. capitalism. The final draft of that long- pending document received sharp criticism from the conservative laity for placing too much dependence on Government remedies. But last week in Washington the...