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...capitals, the worry is that Moscow will come to think so, and react to the emergence of a united, successful West by tightening its grip on the bloc. "So you see," explains one Hungarian official, "we're caught in the middle-between the Soviets' perpetual fear of capitalist powers aligning against them and the West Europeans' aspirations for union...
...most people over 40 in Western Europe, America still represents the deliverance from the evil that was Nazism. There is a middle-range group of leftist intellectuals, roughly in their early 30s, who are violently anti-American because they consider the U.S. the model of a capitalist, imperialist society. The young generally see the U.S. as a corrupt military-industrial establishment -even as they absorb and emulate the latest made-in-America styles in rock sounds, drugs and fashions...
...group which compiled and is distributing the reading list includes members of the Union for Radical Political Economics and of the New American Movement. The reading list is made up mainly of recent works containing radical critiques of the capitalist economic system...
...very impressed with those radicals who would reply that the England or America of ten years ago were not in fact free countries, since no capitalist country could ever be "truly" free. The countries these people tend to admire for their "true" freedom--China, Cuba, and North Vietnam--all employ not only censorship but positive control of the arts as an integral part of their respective governing strategies. Those who would go further and say that no country has ever had "true" freedom impress me even less, since it's hard to understand how they would recognize freedom...
...SHOULDN'T surprise us that the totalitarian approach to politics is in fashion at the White House; it's nothing new. The leaders of the capitalist democracies have generally looked upon exotic, undemocratic forms of government with a horrid fascination--and have often doubted the efficacy and permanence of their own methods of social organization. In the 1930's, when the United States found it impossible to develop a coherent program for national recovery, even Franklin D. Roosevelt wondered for a time whether democracy could last. And for many intellectuals, the only choice then seemed to be one between Fascism...