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Marglin, a Marxist economist, called the improvement a sign of the "contradictions of the capitalist system." He explained that the economy cannot sustain full employment at the same time as stable prices and high profits...
Lest there was any doubt that the self-styled "Communist parties of capitalist Europe" were veering away from Moscow, the position paper endorsed the "free circulation of people" - an attack on Soviet emigration and travel restrictions. Western Europe's two largest Communist parties specifically asserted that "the right of each people to decide in a sovereign manner its own political and social regime must be guaranteed...
Peter Hogness '76, another NAM member, said he came to the demonstration to protest against Ford "not as an individual, but as head of an inhumane, capitalist system...
...politics of toasts. The Foreign Minister's scarcely veiled meaning was clear to Henry Kissinger, who raised his goblet politely, but-with a noticeable lack of enthusiasm-barely touched it to his lips. In effect, China, the No. 2 Communist power, was accusing the U.S., the leading capitalist, of appeasing the No. 1 Communist country, the Soviet Union. It was warning that Russian-American détente could cast a shadow over Washington-Peking rapprochement. Try as he might during his four-day stay in China, the Secretary of State could not get his hosts very far from this...
...Internal Soviet political stress is building over this year's crop disaster, which Western analysts feel could be a setback for Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Says one diplomat: "The grain situation could put the leadership and Brezhnev on the spot." The necessity of buying grain from the capitalist U.S. is expected to be a touchy issue. Brezhnev can argue within the Politburo, however, that the U.S. wants Soviet oil as much as the Soviets want U.S. grain...