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Harrington's analysis contains an important and troubling paradox. He consistently argues that America's problems are structural, but he rejects as politically impossible radical structural changes such as a complete overthrow of capitalism. He doesn't explain how he can accomplish the reforms he proposes--direct challenges to capitalist assumptions--without changing the capitalist system. As the example of the Allende government in Chile indicates, democratically-elected socialist governments may have to combat a lack of business confidence or outright business sabotage. As head of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), Harrington is committed to peaceful change and socialist...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Utopia? | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

...read Marx, but I was never really anti-American," he says, a trifle defensively. "I never thought America was fascist." He explains: "I think a lot of it was puberty. It was so exciting." If so, intense study in jail helped bring on Mar shall's capitalist manhood. He and his wife Dianne, 32, own a pleasant houseboat and mooring space on Seattle's Portage Bay. "Liberal economics just doesn't work," he now says firmly. "It did for a time, but not any more. Self-reliance, productivity and independence are important. We used to assume that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Seattle: Up from Revolution | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...caper, like QEII, is carried out by a mixed band of Irish, German and Arab thugs. Far from aiming to bring capitalist society to its knees, the attackers just want the capital. There is an ideological twist to the scheme, however. As envisioned by Harlan Stone Huckleby, an embittered retired major general and wealthy industrialist who finances the siege, the island's capture is intended to drive home the message to all Americans that the nation is woefully unprepared to resist enemy attack. The dotty general's Götterdammerung is orchestrated by Peter Stiehl, an engaging mercenary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrorists Take Over the Thrillers | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

Chandler, an expert in American capitalist development, said he cannot offer the course unless he finds someone to lecture on the European topics it discusses because he himself is "unqualified to teach the European side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Core Curriculm May Lose Course In Historical Study | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...interview with TIME (see box), Mugabe also vowed not to disrupt the potentially prosperous capitalist economy he will inherit. Many local businessmen feel that the coming of peace and stable government could spark an unprecedented boom in Zimbabwe. With the country's main agricultural, mining and manufacturing industries freed from the shackles of the international sanctions imposed after the unilateral declaration of independence, economists expect a 3% rise in the gross domestic product this year and a 15% increase in exports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: Mugabe Takes Charge | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

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