Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other Hope? The "state principle" which more & more societies are substituting for capitalism, Demant believes, is doomed to failure; the healing of society must take place on a level far deeper than either socialist politics or capitalist economics. Rivalry between capitalism and collectivism "is bound to be a kind of war of the pseudo-religions...
Someone remembered that Karl Marx himself had said that the bourgeoisie had a language of its own. Lenin had made some remarks about the existence of separate cultures within the capitalist state, and Joseph Stalin declared that the bourgeoisie guided culture. On these slender foundations arose a whole school of Marxist philology. Its chief oracle was a philology professor called Nikolai Marr, the son of a Scottish father and a Georgian mother; he was 53 when the revolution broke out, but embraced Bolshevism with youthful fervor. Marr advocated the development of one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism...
...last week, Clement Attlee quietly picked up the morning paper. A minute later he found himself in the most embarrassing how-de-do a British Prime Minister had faced in a long time-the kind of situation that a Socialist would hardly wish even on his worst capitalist enemy...
Afterwards, the pair met the press. Said Baritone Robeson: "Yugoslavia has tied itself firmly to the capitalist camp which, at the behest of the Du Fonts and Wall Street, is preparing for a new war." He accused Rogge of being a paid agent of Tito...
Dynamo. Elmer Lindseth calls himself "a beneficiary of the capitalist system." The son of Swedish immigrants (his father was a blacksmith), he won scholarships to Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology and Ohio's Miami University, later a teaching fellowship to Yale. He worked summers as a helper in one of C.E.I.'s boiler plants, got a full-time job as a "junior tester" in 1926. Within a year he became a production engineer, later moved up as an assistant to C.E.I.'s President Eben Crawford, stepped into his shoes (and an $80,000 salary...