Word: capitalisme
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Only the Vietnam experience successfully demonstrated to most people that the United States's "destiny" to implant its system of liberal capitalism in any "underdeveloped" foreign nation was no longer "manifest." But Vietnam still failed to create any popular recognition that America's foreign policy is shaped within parameters set...
It is crucial that these discussions be pursued among the American people and especially on the Left. As economist Harry Magdoff has pointed out, misunderstandings concerning the nature of economics and U.S. politics have led some radicals to believe U.S. capitalism could survive in a healtheir state without imperialism. These...
But historians have also underestimated the economic foundations of foreign policy. The United States did not trip unwillingly into the arena of world power in the 1890s. Given the country's economic needs, the reorganization of the national economy into a system of finance capitalism, and the extent of social...
U.S. economic groups with no interests in Cuba naturally opposed this country's intervention in 1898. But U.S. participation served not only to mollify a public frightened by the growing pains of capitalism--labor violence, the concentration of ownership, urbanization, the dissolution of "rural values," and the swelling number of...
The 1972 summer program left the big brothers deeply in debt, and the program as a whole declined rapidly. Admissions to the program were frozen, and in April 1973 Pitts recommended it be terminated, writing in his report that "it is doubtful Columbia Point is the correct battleground to fight...