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...Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man opens on Primo (Ugo Tognazzi), a hard-working salt-of-the-earth type who has realized the capitalist dream in the form of his own cheese factory outside Parma in northern Italy. The first hint of conflict s straightforward and understandable enough: Primo's leftist-leaning only child Giovanni (Riki Tognazzi) presents him with a birthday gift of a flare-gun and binoculars, accompanied by a note deriding Primo's latest purchase, a yacht Visibly stung by the rebuke, Primo ascends to his factory's roof to survey his domain. In the distance he sees...
Members of the SYL. a communist group with national membership, organized their march "to drive the Marines off campus." Participants, including several Harvard students, carried anti-capitalist placards denouncing President Reagan, the Marines and the "Bourgeoisie...
What Palme, Oberg and other Social Democrats are driving at is a move beyond present day ideologies. As Oberg says: "Neither capitalism nor communism has provided what people want. The rate of unemployment in the capitalist world shows this. And the suppression of democracy in Poland and the refusal in the East bloc as a whole to give the true working class its say in society is proof communism doesn't work...
...public support was insignificant. To that most vocal hard core of dissenters, the issue was not the wisdom of a particular American commitment but the validity of American foreign policy in general and indeed of American society. They saw the war as a symptom of an evil, corrupt, militaristic capitalist system. They treated the Viet Cong as a progressive movement, North Viet Nam as a put-upon, heroic revolutionary country and Communism as the wave of the future in Indochina, if not in the entire developing world. They were outraged by our incursion into Cambodia less because of the alleged...
Evidence and anecdote in The Imperial Rockefeller support the realists. Yet the author, Rockefeller's speechwriter from 1966 to 1977, draws a sympathetic conclusion: "Nelson Rockefeller was never prepared to step outside the protective palisade of eastern Republican enlightened capitalist orthodoxy to take his stand ... It does credit to his seriousness of purpose that he long resisted, even disbelieved, the idea that a President was born of a thousand chicken dinners and a hundred thousand smalltown handshakes...