Word: capitalists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...however, the Sparts have done something much worse than disrupt student activism; they have jeopardized a workers union. In a leaflet issued today, the Sparts call on students to support Local 26: their main criticism of Harvard's union-busting administration, however, is that it has invited "the pro-capitalist, clerical-reactionary head of Solidarnose, Lech Walesa" to speak at Commencement. For the Sparts, supporting workers at Harvard means opposing them in Poland...
...similar uprisings in the West, leaders of the Soviet Union quickly abandoned the Leninist concept of a people's militia in a well-equipped standing army that would ardently defend "socialism in one country." Upon accession to power, Stalin committed the Soviet Union to "catching and overtaking the capitalist countries." Holloway finds the early roots of the arms race. As he goes on to show, the surprise German attack on Russia in June 1941 left an indelible mark on the minds of Soviet strategists, who have since determined never to allow such vulnerability again...
...Soviet theory it is not Soviet actions that move the world from capitalism to socialism, but the contradictions inherent in capitalism itself. These contradictions give rise to revolutionary and national liberation movements which to over throw the capitalist states and damage their network of imperialist domination...
...jaillike schools make us unhappy, with the result that we become oppressors defending the system to cover up our unhappiness. Family-inspired social conventions teach us subconsciously to do absurd things like giving an inferior role to women. And the values of our competitive capitalist economy teach us to squish anyone who's weaker than...
Geraghty said that a lawyer may become frustrated because he is "not a productive member of capitalist society... You're doing something that's enormously derivative." She said her biggest reservation with the legal profession is that it places too much emphasis on the "adversary process." "It puts a premium on people who are aggressive, competitive, striving," she added...