Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev has superlative cause for worrying about the continued existence of West Berlin: it stands as a showcase outpost of freedom-a glowing symbol, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain, of successful allied policy and capitalist prosperity, a haven for thousands upon thousands of East German refugees in flight from the drab, despondent backdrop of Communist East Germany. West Berlin's symbolism is repeated on a much larger scale in Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic. To erase Western strength in Berlin would be a sure step toward weakening West Germany, and the Russians have never ceased trying...
...occupiers, and that, after all, "every occupation is an event of limited duration." As a philosophical generalization about occupation, this might have some validity. But it was not the people of West Berlin who wanted the West out. Khrushchev promised them their freedom, and the right to "private, capitalist ownership"; they were assured that the Soviet Union, by "placing orders"-whatever that meant-would assure their prosperity. They were told by Khrushchev that the U.N. in "one way or another" could guarantee their status as a free city. But they inhabit an island no miles inside Communist territory...
...Opitz. in his speech entitled "The Moral Case for Capitalism," said the average person tends to attribute all sorts of evils to the capitalist system. "It is fallacious," he said, "to blame the troubles of the world on capitalism. The features of our time--secularism, nationalism, democracy in its sense, and utilitarianism are at fault," he concluded...
Slim, tousle-haired Jeannette Vermeersch, wife of ailing Red Boss Maurice Thorez and herself Communist candidate for the National Assembly, spoke with passion for two hours. She railed against "capitalist exploiters," but her words fell on a lethargic gathering of scarcely 30 people, even though she was speaking in the grimy 18th arrondissement, the reddest of the Red districts of Paris. In tiny Ecurie (pop. 362), only 15 men and a runny-nosed boy turned out to hear Socialist Guy Mollet review his premiership, blame "the Americans" for preventing the Anglo-French conquest of Suez. Were any problems bothering...
...their economic philosophy which emphasizes "gratification of private desires," capitalist countries have caused an "alienation of the individual from his own humanity" and an internal "emptiness." Sweezy continued, "The better capitalism works, the worse this psychological problem seems to become...