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...black and white workers would form a "united front" and work together instead of fighting they could make real economic and social progress, Leary said. "The capitalist system has got some problems," he said...
...Americans especially, the elements are painfully familiar: a country divided since World War II into implacably hostile sides, one Communist and the other capitalist; a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two; a long and bitter history of skirmishes, provocations, threats and commando raids that could culminate in an all-out war. This is not Viet Nam, however, but that other Asian country where Asians and Americans have fought and died since World War II: Korea...
...Western-influenced life-style of Saigon has become a target of Communist ire. Blue jeans, nail polish, lipstick and miniskirts have been condemned as vestiges of the defeated capitalist society. Young men have been pressured to trim their long hair, while girls have been urged to wear "clothes that are simple and not stimulating." As a result, more Saigon women these days are wearing the traditional slit-skirt ao-dai, which, ironically, many Westerners regarded as extremely stimulating indeed...
...White House. Yet he made those choices, without swagger or rhetoric. (It is typical that he called his Administration the Fair Deal. Not Great. Not Big. Just Fair.) Without that extraordinary scheme for giving, the Marshall Plan, Western Europe might never have survived as a community of free, capitalist democracies. A case could be made that the civil rights movement began with Truman's tough, ten-point message to Congress in 1948, which created the Federal Fair Employment Practices Committee. It also created the Dixiecrat movement, which cost him the 39 electoral votes of four Southern states in that...
...According to ex-antiwar activist Rennie Davis. Who makes "the vision of May Day, or workers no longer needing to serve a capitalist society...a very, very, very practical reality...