Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studied the Marxist writers can fail to be impressed by the emphasis placed on destructive criticism of the capitalist system. Violent trade cycles and war are said to be inevitable products. Of course, we know that this is an utterly false view. Nevertheless, two things are true, which we have not yet all learned. First, prosperity, like peace, is indivisible; secondly, there are still too many artificial barriers to the free flow of money and trade in the free world. Just as the economies of the states of the Union of this continent grew together two hundred years...
When the Russians started handing out dachi in the country to favored bureaucrats, artists and scientists, they let themselves in for some bad capitalist habits. Owners of the summer cottages have made a good thing of renting them for a few weeks or a few weekends. Since every Communist schoolboy knows that Marx and Lenin eliminated landlords as well as all other bloodsucking capitalists, this could not go on. Last week the city fathers of Leningrad decreed that anyone caught renting out his dacha would have his city quarters confiscated...
...capitalist could have warned, things did not turn out that way. At the Zeran auto plant, 8,000 workers are currently building 15,000 cars a year (U.S. auto workers in a good year produce ten cars or more per man). At Nowa Huta, 18,000 workers last year turned out 984,000 tons of steel. Shrugs one Polish Red: "We might as well admit it-in Poland the average worker produced less than 55 tons of steel last year; in West Germany he produced 140 tons...
...planning preventive war. "If so, one effect would be to confuse their own people and the people of the Eastern European countries under their domination." Other motives, said Ike, might be: 1) the Russians do not want to cooperate, or 2) as orthodox Communists they still believe capitalist societies are inherently warlike, or 3) their leaders are simply ignorant of U.S. life...
...version, Dictator Stalin made no horrible mistakes until 1934, when "he began to believe in his own infallibility" and grew deaf to his comrades' advice. Among his biggest boners: the purges of the late '30s, trusting Hitler, feuding with Tito, believing in inevitable war between capitalist and socialist states. "Stalinism" is now officially a tainted word, but that is not Joe's fault: "The term is an invention of reactionary imperialist circles...