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Composed mostly of graduate students in Economics, last night's Littauer gathering first heard Sweezy, author of "The Theory of Capitalist Development," assert that capitalism has shown increasing stability and violent fluctuations...
...well-known and popular figure here, Sweezy taught Economics of Socialism during his stay, and published his authoritative book, "The Theory of Capitalist Development." Sweezy's appointment as associate professor did not expire until December 31, 1946, but he has not been teaching here for some time...
With copious quotations from Marx, Lenin and Stalin, Lombardo demonstrated that this was the "true" revolutionary line for weak and colonial countries: a "nationalist", economic and political front to fight capitalist imperialism...
...Comité de Défense de L'Humanitè, a fancy name for a gang of thugs hired by L'Humanité's circulation department. After a brief battle, the pickets (about half of whom were members of the Communist Party) beat off L'Humanité's defenders. In similar cases capitalist publishers would be likely to charge that the strike was led by Communists. L'Humanité could not do that. Its friends said the strike was led by Trotskyites...
...failed to implement its pleas for greater production with hard measures to achieve them. The White Paper inveighed against "restrictive practices" by both labor and capital. It urged more output per worker. But the truth was that the British worker was not working very hard, and neither the British capitalist nor the Government was taking measures likely to supply either the incentive or the compulsion for greater effort. Nearly all British industries, for example, still worked only one shift, because workers were reluctant to change their accustomed hours. Said London's Times: "The trade unions hold the fate...