Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news, the once faithful Communist Teresa took a step unprecedented in scorned fury-she wrote a letter to the editor of the capitalist Corriere delta Sera: "Please print my categorical denial that the Honorable Longo has got a divorce from me." Throwing caution to the winds, the outraged Teresa went on to point out that divorce is forbidden by Italian Communist doctrine: "Communists, in fact, cannot have two policies, one public and the other personal." This amounted to a charge of deviationism, not only against Longo, but against Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti himself (who divorced his wife in Russia...
Listening Ears. Communist broadcasts no longer refer to French politicians as "valets of American imperialism," or to French businessmen as "capitalist bloodsuckers." Pravda has recently been lauding the French people's "energy, diligence, love of country and liberty." Sergei Obraztsov, director of Moscow's Central Puppet Theater, has been in Paris gushing that he loved France because "we and you have lived through the same struggle against a common enemy...
...Camille. There was also some plain trash. The trashiest: two heavyhanded pieces of political propaganda by Communist Painter André Fougeron. One, called Atlantic Civilization, had all the artistic merit of a low-class comic strip; it showed a soldier shooting from a brassy U.S. automobile while a bloated capitalist looked on gloatingly and the proletariat wept over their coffins. Le Figaro called Fougeron's work an "imbecility," and it was too much even for Communist Poet Louis Aragon, who wrote in Les Lettres Françaises: "Fougeron's works are hastily and clumsily painted . . . We must tell...
...Socialists reject it on the ground of Socialist dogma: capitalist nations cannot be progressive; the U.S. is capitalist: therefore, the U.S. is an anti-social exploiter, Q.E.D. British Socialists have a special resentment against American capitalism: it works. A decaying American capitalism could be treated with the tolerance and condescension that is the hallmark of the Fabian spirit. But neither Fabius nor Sidney Webb would know what to do with a capitalist enemy that really achieves its ends. The success of American capitalism in raising American living standards can neither be believed nor forgiven. It can only be evaded...
Soviet workers, said Mikoyan, must learn that the customer is at least occasionally right. Then, in a grudging but oddly revealing statement, he solemnly admonished the comrades to study and learn from "capitalist sales methods." Mikoyan's conclusion: "It should be kept in view that under competitive conditions, because of growing sales difficulties, bourgeois countries have created good models of trade organization . . . cultured means of serving customers. It is impossible not to condemn those comrades who, under the pretext of fighting subservience before foreigners, ignore foreign experience, cease to interest themselves in it, to study it, and to utilize...