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...strikes, enforced wage cuts, and higher prices making revenues for a revived private industrial sector. Aid under such terms would destroy any hope for Portugese socialism, while workers would be recalcitrant and possibly violent if sacrifices were forced on them in the name of U.S. and other capitalist nations' investment policies...
...rise of national corporations at the turn of the century and to the beginnings of government regulation of the economy in the 1930s. Americans who seek a new social order are thus faced with a major challenge: to provide an adequate analysis of this new stage of capitalist development and its consequences for the American economy and to create new strategies capable of coping with corporations which operate on a global scale...
...Barnet and Mueller's concept of the state--they alternatively see it as the "executive committee of the ruling class," controlled by the corporations through interlocking directorates and political influence, and as a somewhat class-neutral group of economic managers who regulate the economy within the confines of the capitalist system. Since the growing independence of the global corporations from the nation-state is the central theme of the book, it is particularly disturbing to find that the authors lack a coherent idea of what exactly the state is doing when it regulates business. As a result, many of their...
...former president of The Crimson, concedes that many people probably can't remember the six demands of the 1969 strike, but that the basic ideas behind the demands still flourish. "People still think that Harvard shouldn't eat up Cambridge and drive the workers out. We had an anti-capitalist feeling on a small scale," Hollander said...
Though the Third World did not get all it asked for from the capitalist countries either, the West's concessions were significant. Before May 1975, the U.S. was firmly opposed to commodity agreements of any kind. Since then, it has signed international pacts on tin and coffee, and expressed interest in beginning negotiations on several other commodities. The U.S. has also offered to help launch an International Resources Bank to finance new investments in raw materials in developing countries. Meanwhile, the West's economic recovery has helped lift commodity prices from last year's depressed levels. Largely...