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...revolution in Guatemala overthrew a dictator and set up a democratic, capitalist government roughly based on the example of American New Deal policies. But the new government made the fatal mistake of opposing economic exploitation by U.S. multinational corporations, such as the United Fruit Company, which has been basically running the country. U.S. business and government leaders were worried that the Guatemalan model of self-determinism might be adopted by neighboring nations...
...open an economic window to the breezes of the free market. ``We have to be ready to conduct the necessary reforms to adapt our country and our economy to the present world situation,'' he says. Rough translation: until Castro gets his country up and running again, he will use capitalist tools to survive. ``But,'' he insists, ``without renouncing our ideals!'' The way out is proving a difficult road for Castro's most loyal minions, since it requires discarding--temporarily, they assure themselves--several pillars of Cuba's socialist dogma. The old Central Planning Board, which piloted the state-directed economy...
...some, the Square is a capitalist dream: bigstores making big bucks. But Cambridge residentssay big businesses benefit the visitors and notthose who live nearby...
...reaction to students like Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. Clarke with their preference for Black-solidarist cathartic activism, I persist in articulating to such Black students here at Harvard College what I believe to be a more viable mode of Black-individual and Black-group metamorphosis in our complex post-Capitalist (e.g., Hi-Tech Capitalist, Global Capitalist, etc.) era. Namely--translate your strong cathartic appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against...
Whether some residents of Cambridge like it or not, this nation runs on the capitalist model. This is a fact that no home rule petition can change. As any Ec 10 student knows, we keep this system because it does the best job of allocating goods and services and meeting consumer needs...