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...amounts to a struggle of poor, generally powerless men and women to preserve what passes for dignity and self-respect--usually at each other's expense. Their problem, as Brecht shows it, is that they have no understanding of dignity beyond the sham that passes for gentility among a capitalist society's ruling class. They have a passion for outward virtue combined with an infinite corruptibility. They parody bourgeois family life, but are loyal only so far as self-protection permits. Peachum is forever misquoting scripture to defend arguments for fraud and betrayal. Tiger Brown's conception of honor...
...crush the nascent hope that a reduction in military spending would result in more consumer goods for the people. On the contrary, asserted Soviet Chief of Staff Victor Kulikov recently, "the process of preparation for a new war, of accumulating and perfecting weapons continues and has even intensified in capitalist countries." As a result, he said, "the Soviet armed forces are maintaining their defense capabilities at the necessary level...
...typical tax bill for a French factory employee who earned $10,000 last year would be $756, compared with $291 for a physician or other professional person, $260 for a shopkeeper and nothing at all for a farmer. Thus the French worker has come to expect little from a capitalist, conservative society, and he puts all his faith on changing France's form of government...
Many Northeastern students are similarly directed toward working for social change. "A large minority of the people here are anti-capitalist," says one of a group of students discussing the political orientation of the student body. "The rest are liberal-left. Maybe 10 percent are conservatives." "Do you really think there are conservatives here?" another asks. "How about Jim, isn't he interested in insurance?" "He came from that field originally, but I think...
...affect the composition and course of the leadership. One big mystery has been the position of Premier Chou Enlai. Last week China watchers had new evidence that Chou may be under increasing attack from ideological hard-liners for his pragmatic policies, especially China's developing rapprochement with the capitalist world...