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'The Watergate conspirators were working to establish a system of political control compatible with the economics of international capitalism.'
* Liberals writers have an ideology--and a political and economic system behind it--to protect. Since 1936, liberals have defended the growth of capitalism by assuring dissidents that the system was learning to correct social abuses.
Chomsky's comments on Watergate are among the most incisive so far written. But he understates what Watergate can teach us about Nixon, or, for that matter, about liberal writers. A close examination of Watergate shows that fascism is not merely Nixon's response to crisis; fascism is apparently the...
Obviously the plot failed. Jules Archer, journalist-historian, supplies some fascinating details that make the episode considerably more than a paranoid fantasy. In 1933 emissaries purporting to represent an organization called the American Liberty League approached a retired Marine general named Smedley Darlington Butler. The League was devoted to laissez...
In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx described the paralysis of a middle-class anxious to maintain the political democracy it believed in, but increasingly aware that political democracy might mean an end to capitalism, and therefore to its own power. Vietnamese liberals after Dienbienphu found themselves in...