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American medicine today faces a tremendous crisis. In what has become yet another capitalist venture, the costs of technology, medication, education and malpractice insurance have begun to exert more than their fair share of control over Hippocrates' healing...
...other words, get in the habit now. Later, when you have all that capitalist lucre, you'll know where to add the zeroes. This is a classic fundraising technique, practiced by everyone from Harvard to the drug pushers who offer ten year olds free first highs...
Growing up during the McCarthyist years, Rzewski developed an early loathing for capitalist society that continued to define his political views for years to come. In the '60s and '70s Rzewski's Marxism was so fundamental to him that he hardly wrote a piece without a populist affirmation of some kind. And having early in his career sensed an incompatibility between his political views and any austerity of style, Rzewski gradually adopted a quasi-19th-century romantic idiom with the intention "to establish communication [with], rather than to alienate an audience." His most famous work is a brilliant hour-long...
...industrial policy debate here was settled long ago: the government coldly ushers fading industries like textiles offstage, and targets promising new ones like biotechnology with investment, grants and retraining of workers. Oddly in such a capitalist nirvana, the government owns scores of firms, from the telephone, electricity and airline companies to banks, supermarkets and taxis, but they all run on a competitive, profitmaking basis. Says a Western analyst: "Fortune 500 executives love it here because the government runs the country the way AT&T would...
...businessmen first extracted it from the ground and refined it into kerosene. For years, the substance was used mainly to light lamps. Only with the coming of the automobile did oil become the most sought-after fuel in the world. Since then it has been the impetus for great capitalist enterprises, the object of geopolitical maneuvering, the reason for wars...