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...political or economic machinations-not Yalta nor Dumbarton Oaks nor any other agreement-can give us lasting peace so long as the corpse of the capitalist economy continues to exist." Thus declared Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, speaking last night together with Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, and Abbott P. Usher '04, professor of Economics, on the topic "Is the planned economy 'the Road to Serfdom'?" at the first forum of the newly-organized Harvard Political Science Forum...
Adopting tested reclamation measures, Bromfield put five families besides his own on his land. His model was the Russian collective farm, with himself as capitalist substituting for the state. To each family he supplied all food except "coffee, spices and sugar," and a salary "above the average." He agreed to put up whatever money was needed until the farms showed a profit. Then he was to receive the first 5%, with all profits above that divided according to each tenant's salary...
...TIME neither said nor thinks that Soviet-U.S. collaboration is "doomed to failure." But capitalistic, democratic TIME expects and welcomes the prospect of competition between Communist Russia and Capitalist U.S. TIME believes, with the late, great Wendell Willkie...
...proof of his undeviating orthodoxy, Stalin might point to the definition of democracy in Leninism: ". . . The dictatorship of the proletariat is the domination of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie, untrammeled by law, based on violence, and enjoying the sympathy and support of the toiling . . . masses. . . . Democracy under the capitalist system is . . . the democracy of an exploiting minority. . . . Democracy under proletarian dictatorship is . . . a democracy of the exploited majority...
...Rancid Odor. Bennett Clark began with the MacLeish prose. In his husky voice he read aloud from MacLeish's Preface to an American Manifesto: "The great American capitalist and his son and his daughter-in-law and his banking system might well have been chosen for hatefulness. ..." What, demanded the Senator, did that mean...