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...Editors: As we saw during President Reagan's trip to China [WORLD, April 30], that country's accommodation of capitalist ideas is creating a structure as precious and fragile as a Ming vase. How can we not feel a sense of pride at seeing the basic tenets of our way of life being vindicated once again...
Nonetheless, Muscovites approached by Western journalists guardedly expressed regret and, at times, disbelief. "Come on, it's a capitalist joke," said one to a Western correspondent who phoned with the news...
That rhetoric, of course, is no harsher than what the Soviets have been saying about "capitalist imperialists" for decades. Nor is Reagan alone in making bleak judgments about the nature and destiny of the Soviet system. Any number of Kremlinologists, political scientists and other commentators do so all the time. But when a chief of state talks that way, he roils Soviet insecurities and implies that it is the aim of the U.S. Government to bring the Soviet regime down. That tends to confirm the Soviets' pessimistic and alarmist view of Reagan and make them all the more obstreperous...
...unofficial name for the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles is the Capitalist Olympics-so called because every cent of the $475 million budgeted to stage them has come from private sources, primarily U.S. corporations. But as every capitalist knows, the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith's marketplace economy not only provides bounteous rewards, it is also perfectly capable of delivering a sucker punch. It was far too early to tell whether the Soviets, in leading an East-bloc boycott of the Olympics, had landed a solid shot or a glancing blow on the 30 corporate sponsors, 54 Olympic...
...revolutionary tradition of the anti-slavery fighters John Brown and Frederick Douglass. To complete the finished demoratic tasks of the Civil War, we look to the multi-racial American working class. In this period of imperialist decay, there is no longer a radical or "progressive" wing of the capitalist ruling class; the whole system stands squarely counterposed to Black freedom. Forward to the Third American Revolution, a proletarian revolution by a Trotskyist vanguard party with a strong black leadership component. Finish the Civil War--for Black Liberation in a workers' America...