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Even some of Prime Minister Edward P.G. Seaga's closest associates were predicting that he would comfortably wait out the remaining two years of his term. After all, he enjoyed strong U.S. support, and his capitalist Jamaica Labor Party had 51 of the 60 seats in the country's Parliament. Nonetheless, Seaga last week became the first Caribbean leader to cash in on a wave of popular support for his nation's participation in the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada. After polls showed his popularity rising above 50% for the first time since he was elected, Seaga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamaica: Cashing In | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...import from erotica to existentialism. According to Communist Party Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, spiritual pollution includes "obscene, barbarous or reactionary materials, vulgar taste in artistic performances, indulgence in individualism" and statements that "run counter to the country's social system." Ostensibly aimed at those with a taste for capitalist pleasures, the purge has begun to descend on any artist or intellectual who seems reluctant to promote the orthodox Communist vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Battling Spiritual Pollution | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...wicked to take a pleasure in spring, and other seasonal changes? To put it more precisely, is it politically reprehensible, while we are all groaning under the shackles of the capitalist system, to point out that life is frequently more worth living because of a blackbird's song, a yellow elm tree in October, or some other natural phenomenon which does not cost money and does not have what the editors of the left-wing newspapers call a class angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quotable Orwell | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...anti-capitalist argument, interpreting Stratten's misfortunes as an inevitable result of capitalist exploitation, would focus on the Disneyland nature of Hefner's Playboy empire (as Fosse does) and on the insatiable appetite of a capitalist society for junk food, junk movies--in short, junk values. It would also point an accusing finger at the American propensity for materializing and objectifying life; through, for example, the starmaking machinery in New York and Los Angeles, which manufactures individuals into cardboard cutouts and then expresses shock when they age, bleed...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Exploiting the Exploiters | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

...chart provides endless laughs, if one's sense of political humor runs that way. Less amusing, however, is the fact that scores of millions will continue to starve to death every year--while the Western capitalist nations continue their stalling tactics against a reorganization of the current global system...

Author: By Errol T. Louis s, | Title: Hunger on Hold | 11/18/1983 | See Source »

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