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...strikes, enforced wage cuts, and higher prices making revenues for a revived private industrial sector. Such conditional aid would destroy any hope for Portuguese socialism, while workers would be recalcitrant and possibly violent, if sacrifices were forced on them in the name of U.S. and other capitalist nations' investment policies...
Attributes of the capitalist market system have been used to describe the human social order, and vice versa, he explained...
...media has turned its focus away from the women's movement in recent years, and the women themselves seem to have left the strident voices that characterized their initial protest against a male-dominated capitalist society behind. The Boston Women's Health Collective is thinking about putting together a book on parenting, and this time the women say they will include experiences from both men and women. But whatever happens to the group that wrote it, or to the feminist movement in general, the next copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves that gets put out on my high school library...
...Republic of China. The country's Politburo, apparently meeting in Chairman Mao Tse-tung's private quarters in the Forbidden City, made several crucial changes in the country's leadership. First, the Peking leadership brought to an abrupt climax the intense ideological campaign against the notorious "capitalist reader" Teng Hsiao-p'ing (TIME Cover, Jan. 19), the wily little bureaucrat who only three months ago was considered Chou En-lai's sure successor as Premier. Because of the "counterrevolutionary incident that took place at T'ien An Men Square," the Politburo announced, Teng...
...Great Helmsman" did not wait long. Within months he had launched the century's most idiosyncratic social upheaval: the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It was originally an ideological pursuit of a "handful of people in authority taking the capitalist road"-stigmatizing those who would create a bureaucratic class of privilege as in the U.S.S.R. Later, the revolt degenerated into a witch hunt for the "Black Hands": i.e., anyone who opposed the movement. After three years of near anarchy, Mao himself was ready to call off the chase. "The Black Hand is nobody else but me," he told a group...