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...story involves Jonas Acme, American capitalist, who makes pig-oil beer from smuggled pig-nuts. Acme, with somewhat convoluted logic, explains that as long as the American working man drinks pig-oil beer, he will not rebel...
...German novel about Chicago and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle just before he started to write In the Jungle of Cities. A jungle is an apt, if overused, metaphor for the most grotesque, competitive aspects of a city--John D. Rockefeller, invoking Darwin to describe his goals for the capitalist economy, suggested how apt the comparison can be--and Brecht populates his jungle with Baboon and another henchman cleverly named Worm to emphasize the point. But otherwise he ignores the real psychology of city life in order to concentrate on the petty idiosyncracies of his characters...
...almost 25 years after the Revolution, China has not forgotten Confucius, and probably never will. A generation of children needs more guidance than slogans like "Defeat the running dogs of capitalist imperialism" can provide. And while the children will understand the forces that almost brought China down better than the oppressors, they may come away with the core of Confucian morality intact. As The Master said, "If out of the 300 songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teaching, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts...
...Everybody agrees the Tories have done badly, but the British press is trying to perpetuate the myth that Labor did even worse in their attempts. The legend that Conservatives always handle the economy better than Socialists is only true in as much as the economy being handled is more capitalist. than socialist. It is true that Labor left office with rising prices and rising unemployment, but had the government been re-elected, it would never have let the economy get in its present shape, even if correcting the economy would have meant increased taxation...
...preserve the status quo with as little tampering as possible, and its concern is largely short-term in anything it undertakes. If equality is to be achieved with consensus in government, Britian needs a government with a policy, and a government which is willing to supervise the transition from capitalist mayhem to a more controlled and equitable society. I do not believe that capitalism will collapse tomorrow, but too many individuals in Britain and elsewhere are being knocked over and trampled upon every time the sick beast lashes out in an attempt to preserve its balance. The sicker the system...