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...Godard is now wrestling with this decade's disillusionment. Ten years ago, with films like Weekend and Pierrot Le Fou. Godard became renowned and revered as the most blatantly political, and radical, of the French "new wave directors." His movies shocked and stirred with bitter anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois visual polemics. But just as Godard was then trying to translate radical ideology onto the screen, with Numero Deux he seems to have set out to create a visual reflection of his recent frustration. The result thus deliberately lack focus. Yet in its confusion this movie is more human, more...
Plyushch added that the present Soviet government is actually a conservative state-capitalist system. "Stalin, having destroyed all his ideological opponents, destroyed socialism," he said...
ALFRED NOBEL was a brilliant but psychotic inventor, tortured by the fact that the dynamite he invented blew up his own brother. He was an unscrupulous and successful capitalist whose companies became one of the earliest multinational organizations selling the invention which, they claimed, would end war through its deterrent effect. Driven by intense feelings of guilt. Nobel left most of his fortune to endow the prizes that bear his name, with special attention paid to the award for peace...
...contemporary terrorists put together by the computers of the Federal Criminal Office. Almost all the known disciples of Andreas Baader are well-educated products of respectable-sometimes prominent-middle-and upper-middle-class homes. Unlike the student radicals of the late '60s who lashed out against "capitalist exploitation," imperialism and the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, today's German terrorists seem strikingly apolitical. In the coffeehouses of university towns, they are called Spontis-for spontaneous radicals who do not bother with ideology but simply want to destroy the present system, regardless of the consequences...
...elimination of large farms with owners who let their fields lie fallow to produce artificial shortages, has meant that natural disasters no longer mean starvation for millions. Now, the country feeds everyone who lives--which cannot be said of any Third World country trying to develop on a capitalist model...