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Community Twilight. Except for a glow of pride, tempered with nervous concern, among some Frenchmen, the only cheerful voices were being raised in Moscow, where Soviet ideologists suddenly thought they saw confirmation of the hoary Marxist-Leninist tenet that capitalist countries will inevitably be destroyed by their "inner contradictions." Cried a Russian spokesman: "This is the twilight of the so-called European Community. A difficult navigation now awaits the American ship of state...
...strapping (6 ft., 200 lbs.) Alf Robens turned out to be the cleverest capitalist the British Labor Party ever produced. Recognizing that the Coal Board's marketing tactics were woefully weak, he opened a string of showrooms up and down the country to woo homeowners into using more coal for heating, and sent a staff of 200 technicians out to talk British industrialists into burning coal in their plants...
They do not like the sparks of revolution fanning among the oppressed nations; they say a tiny spark may lead to a world war. In the final analysis, their stand boils down to this: the people of capitalist countries should not make revolutions; the oppressed nations should not wage struggles to win their liberation; the people of the world should not fight against imperialism . . . Revisionism is the opiate of the people. It is a beguiling music for the consolation of slaves...
...westward from Kuibyshev near the Urals to power the factories of Russia's European satellites, the other thousands of miles through Siberia and on to the Pacific. Trouble is, Russia cannot produce all of the big-bore (up to 40 in.) pipe itself; so it has turned to capitalist manufacturers, mostly in West Germany and Italy, for 40% of the 2,500,000 tons of pipe it needs for the project...
...pretty soon you realize that this straight-faced world is slightly magic around the edges. Evil is a man in a striped suit and derby hat who tries to destroy dreams. He is a dictatorial mayor and selfish capitalist and doesn't believe that Sandcastle Pier is a boat. Of course it is. We registered it under the laws of the new country of Liberama. And it makes so many people happy that...