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...Collectivist Ship Awash in a Capitalist Sea Theory Chief Spokesman: Andrew Kopkins, Real Paper film critic "Collectivist behavior is a political act," he says, and it's hard to sustain a collective in a hostile, uncollective environment. People who try to do so, as Real Paper staffers did, feel "very isolated" --and they are soon torn between conflicting needs. Kopkind gave voice to this argument last spring, in an article in the Cambridge based. "Working Papers" magazine. His piece was a study of "alternative media" in Boston, titled "Hip Deep, in Capitalism." For the "alternative" paper or radio station, Kopkind...
Clearly, the Real Paper, with a circulation of 100,000 (some of it distributed free) makes frequent bows to popular business practices in order to survive. In that sense it is part of, but estranged from, the capitalist business community that it must look to for support. Kopkind doesn't think collectively-owned newspapers are doomed, but he thinks their chances are better if they receive encouragement from the community...
...distribution pattern would involve continual interference with people's lives to prevent them from making transfers that would violate the pattern. A society which enforced equal income distribution would have to forbid people from doing things for other people for money after work. The government would have to outlaw capitalist acts between consenting adults. This restricts both what a person can do with his life and his income...
...unwelcome anywhere, and because a national community of 600,000 Jews already existed in Palestine. No imperialist state supported their settlement there, and they came through no imperialist motive: they came to escape Russian, Polish, and German persecution. They came to escape a massacre to which all great states, capitalist or communist, western or eastern, imperialist or any other term you will, were indifferent...
...evidence, Cuddihy presents "On the Jewish Question," Marx's still controversial essay about the economic behavior of the Jews. Many scholars have seen it as an anti-Semitic tract. To Cuddihy, on the contrary, it is a description of the Jew as the universal capitalist whose "worldly God" is money. The Gentile capitalists worshiped the same God, except that they affected a veneer of civility as "a figleaf for the cash nexus ... The civilities are a kind of games goyim [Gentiles] play...