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...being a Marxist. I think I am a practicing one, but also a practical one. We do not want to see a society divided into classes; we want to build an egalitarian society. [But] we recognize that there has been a capitalist system in this country that has established a viable infrastructure. We recognize that to overthrow that system would be to create no base at all but to create chaos. Therefore, we cannot go around nationalizing the multinationals. We do not believe in the forcible seizure of property...
...rigid ideology in favor of a relatively freewheeling pragmatism. Communist economic policies have been modified to give greater initiative to local factories and farms. The government has offered new latitude for artists and writers, and it has risked sending thousands of scholars and scientists to study in the capitalist West. Taken together, these peaceful changes could ultimately prove as profound as those that came with the armed Communist revolution in 1949. Rarely in history has a ship as large and unwieldy as the People's Republic of China been turned so sharply...
...theater of capitalism is as clear and simple as the plot of an old morality play. Everything and everyone, except the victims, is for sale; all social transactions, except the class solidarity of workers, are poisoned at the root; the world is run by four breeds of pig: capitalist, officer, priest and whore. Such are the ingredients of caricature, but Grosz, especially in his early postwar work like Gray Day (State Functionary for the War Wounded), 1921, extracted a mean, indignant poetry from them...
...Capitalists support and benefit from managerial policies, Darity said, adding, "The capitalists, however, want a stronger role in society than the managers will give them. This last election may be seen as a class struggle between the managerial class and the capitalist class." President-elect Reagan will be "the last capitalist president the United States will ever have," he said...
Whether the present challenge can be satisfied by a reformed capitalist society or whether it must turn to communism or to a new principle of government is probably beyond the range of undergraduate experience. College men today, however, have a responsibility correspondent to the magnitude of the political and social crisis...