Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the gorgeous capitalist disguise of Comrade Karakhan, he was an Ambassador without an Embassy. The Diplomatic Corps at Peking is composed entirely of Ministers, none of whom relish giving presence to a Bolshevik Ambassador, and they have done much to hinder the Chinese Government from handing over the old Russian Legation. But, through the reported efforts of Dr. Jacob Sohurman, U. S. Minister to China, they were expected to acquiesce in handing over the ex-Russian Legation to Comrade Karakhan...
...preventing domination by autocracy, with all of its disastrous effects upon civilization, and the evidence is clear that the free peoples of the world will unite in resisting such domination." Upton Sinclair, "U. S. Bolshevik": "The world gained by the World War an opportunity to learn thoroughly that capitalist governments are incompetent to manage civilized communities, and that national competition for raw materials and foreign markets will wreck civilization during the present generation, if it is not checked by a system of international cooöperation...
These two people were soon to become famous, chiefly for their exhaustive book, The History of Trade Unionism, which has been well received by all shades of political thought as an authoritative work. Their most recent book, The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation, did indeed meet with severe criticism and is unquestionably faulty−although a highly illuminative book. Again, they are probably the greatest authorities on municipal affairs in Britain and certainly the greatest Socialist-economists of their time. It is said of them that they have such a mastery of detail that they can quote from memory the export...
...Communism. Theoretically it is separated from the Soviet Government, but actually it is the most important branch of that body, controlling foreign policy and spending Government funds. Its prime function is the propagation of Communism throughout the world-a call to the world proletariat to throw off the capitalist yoke, overthrow the existing government, proclaim a dictatorship. "Workers of the World, Unite!" That is its slogan...
...minister who, if he were not a minister, would say: "To Hell with the Capitalist system...