Word: capitaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here Stalin & Co. came to pay dirt. The means of production under capitalism involves a contradiction between "productive forces" (the tools and the workers) and "productive relations" (the relations between capitalists and laborers). New tools or equipment make the old capitalist-labor relations obsolete. The new productive forces require "social ownership" (Communism) for their full expansion. Otherwise, there will be depressions, in which shoe-factory workers, as an example, will be out of work at the same time that they (and others) need shoes...
...what to do until the question is worked out? Here Tito struggled manfully. At best, there is a dilemma. Until the Communist states can "draw together," he said, economic relations between them unfortunately "are still founded on a capitalist exchange of goods," are "not a stimulus to increased drawing together...
...alas, this dilemma is compounded by the Cominform's economic boycott of Yugoslavia. In the exchange of goods, Tito disclosed, "a stand is taken toward Yugoslavia by the people's democracies which is worse than their stand toward capitalist countries...
...under house arrest in Vienna because he had refused to abandon his wife, a "non-Aryan." At war's end, the composer fared hardly better with the Russians. When his wife Sophie told Red army soldiers that her husband's papers and manuscripts were priceless, they snorted "Capitalist!" and destroyed...
...that Bernard Baruch already has offered a fine plan which you nasty people ruined, so that you are clearly not making your offer in good faith now. If this is the adamant attitude of the West, the Russians can counter legitimately (from a point of pure logic) that the capitalist nations can never be forgiven for their support of Admiral Kolchak in 1917, when he tried to overthrow the revolution and re-establish ezarism. The outcome of such charge and counter-charge must eventually reduce into whether Cain was a 100 percent American or a mystic Slavic soul when...