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...world into the middle class-and also a political solvent to meet the rising expectations of people and finance social welfare expenditures-cannot continue, then the tensions that are being generated will wrack every advanced industrial society and polarize the confrontation between the South ... and the advanced industrialized capitalist societies of the West." IMF directors would doubtless reply that that is a prophecy of apocalypse tomorrow-and they have their hands full warding off disaster...
...fatal carelessness. Once the West German federal police set up special squads to cope with the terrorists. they found their quarries easy prey. In 1972 Baader blundered into police hands by racing up to a clandestine bomb factory in a flashy purple Porsche (the gang had a capitalist weakness for luxurious cars). Meinhof naively fell into a police trap in a village near Hannover...
...computer perhaps once every six months, if then. Though the Soviet State Bank is the world's largest banking operation, it does not possess a modern computerized check-processing and accounting system. Stores do not use computers for charge accounts, since Soviet citizens are not permitted this capitalist excess, and they have not computerized other parts of their operations, like inventory control. Aeroflot, the Soviet national airline, in 1975 bought two Univac 1106 computers, worth about $5 million apiece, from the U.S.'s Sperry Univac to automate reservations on international flights; but the world's largest airline...
...Manhattan's Central Park, Bluhdorn fearlessly offers his forthright and often funny opinions on such disparate topics as acquisition strategy ("I want to buy things no one else wants"), American businessmen ("They have surrounded themselves in a citadel where everyone else was below them"), ideology ("I am a capitalist and I don't intend to change"), even China ("I think there was maybe something good about Mao when he sent the ministers out to do something in the fields...
WHERE MOSCOW WENT WRONG. [The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968] was the last straw. Any idea of internationalism ended for us ... Progress of the socialist movements in the developed capitalist countries would aid Soviet society and Soviet Communists in making progress in their transformation [from the present dictatorship] into an authentic workers' democracy. This is a historic necessity that would greatly benefit the cause of socialism. So it is all the more lamentable that in 1968 our Czechoslovak comrades were not allowed to continue their experiment...