Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unpopular Man." Once a pupil, Khrushchev still seemed to believe all that his masters had taught about conditions in the U.S. "You became so rich." he told Harriman. "that until now you have been able to bribe or buy off your workers." That was why free elections in the capitalist world are such a "farce."Though Konrad Adenauer had been elected Chancellor again and again, Khrushchev seemed to think that he was still the "most unpopular man in Germany." His successor would soon enough have to reckon with the power of Soviet missiles. At one point, Khrushchev indulged...
Another U.S. revolution from which Europe has everything to learn is the social and industrial one. According to Bruckberger, the U.S. has defanged and debunked the class struggle. Europe's classical capitalist economists, e.g., Adam Smith, Ricardo, held that the worker was forever doomed to a ''minimum subsistence wage.'' Karl Marx said, in effect: ''Sheep of all countries, unite! Together we shall bring about the Revolution of the sheep and . . . eat the wolves.'' Quite apart from the typical European unrealism of this notion, Bruckberger points out, what the Russian people...
...Faith to Sell. Why are these lessons neglected and demeaned in the contemporary world? The U.S.. Bruckberger argues, has forgotten how to sell itself. The image of America is marred by the treatment of the Negro and by the fact that the U.S. calls itself "capitalist," a word much of the world finds synonymous with exploitation. Yet it is not Marxist theory that enables Russia and China to pose as saviors of underdeveloped lands but the application of U.S. technology. As Bruckberger sees it, the U.S. should back its know-how with a proselytizing faith...
...indubitable capitalist (multimillionaire, onetime railroad board chairman...
...Adlai Stevenson around the Soviet states. Chauffeured official ZIS and Zim sedans were placed at his disposal; interviews with party leaders-including a 90-minute tete-a-tete with Khrushchev-were easy. Barriers melted away, and the safari toured industrial areas in Siberia and the Urals hitherto closed to capitalist rubbernecks...