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Even more vividly than the Brezhnev-Nixon summit, the simultaneous acceptance of East and West Germany as members of the U.N. symbolized the beginning of an uncertain new period in the relations between the democratic-capitalist and the Communist worlds. At the same time, the admission ceremonies underlined East Germany's sense of inferiority to West Germany-the Germany in the eyes of most of the world. People who watch such things closely noted that as gray-haired, gray-suited Otto Winzer, the East German Foreign Minister, was led to his seat by the U.N. Chief of Protocol, there...
...Their willingness to work and our capitalist system put together would produce incredible results," marvels a West German businessman visiting Leipzig...
...hand are the Activists, who argue that peaceable revolution is impossible. Capitalist society, they say, is ridden with internal contradictions, which only become more intensive as the pace of revolutionary change increases. The old ruling class will never surrender its dominance without a struggle; to think otherwise is wishful dreaming. Best to seize control of the state or another instrument of violence and repress the right before it has a chance to move against socialism...
...solution does not always work. The dictatorship of the lower orders can become a warped government by a bureaucratic elite. Josef Stalin set out to build socialism, but he turned it into a new form of oppression hardly more acceptable than its capitalist adversaries. Leonid ceptable than its capitalist adversaries. Leonid Brezhnew, the final product, has as little in common with Lenin or Trotsky as does Richard Nixon...
These when added to the always-smoldering social unrest under capitalism, are the ingredients of Nixon's economic and political crisis. Nixon also faces the continuing threat of war to the structure of multinational capitalist expansion and additional domestic anti-business sentiment as a consequence of galloping inflation...