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Frye goes on from here to give two different ways of looking at popular literature, one as a "packaged commodity" that an overproductive economy, "capitalist or socialist" feeds the masses, and the other, "the literature that demands the minimum of previous verbal experience and special education of the reader...
Popular Front. Revel admits that Communists can effectively exploit the contradictions in capitalist societies to lure nations to disaster. They "destroy, in the name of socialism, political democracy and install systems that are neither democratic nor socialist and that are, to boot, economically and humanely very inferior to capitalism." One step on that road to destruction, Revel warns, is the popular front. Through it, Communists gain a respite in their struggle with the right when the right is too strong for direct confrontation; they also frustrate the building of a reformist bloc by splitting its potential members be tween...
...most trouble in getting loans will be experienced by entrepreneurs who head young companies with no record of proifit growth-even if they have promising ideas. Some bankers themselves are concerned that this is an unhealthy trend for a capitalist economy that relies heavily on entrepreneurs to introduce new products and services, but they see no alternatives. One Philadelphia banker adds that even an established local manufacturer with a record of perhaps ten years of profitable operation may have difficulty in borrowing. If such a manufacturer seeks a loan to expand, says the banker, "we will want to make sure...
...social divisions between regions, cities, even neighborhoods. His polemics against corruption, injustice, and violence at all levels of society have been compared to Zola's work; Pasolini, like Zola in his time, saw in the "ragazzi di vita," who have neither ideals nor morals, a mirror image of the capitalist bourgeois who wield power in Italy. But Pasolini proposed no alternative to the existing power structure. Though he professed commuunism, Pasolini was no Marxist or Maoist, but a utopian, a romantic. His vision of the future society was of a "natural" society, a return to some pastoral arcadia (such...
Pasolini's political activism was a similar middle-class male fantasy. The conflict of his communist ideals with his capitalist life is a slightly magnified reflection of the mentality of the Italian bourgeoisie, a select elite who received a traditional education in a fascistic system and are now confronted with the demands of the proletariat for a decent life. Pasolini was a leftist even though his older brother was killed by a leftist group in a vicious slaughter--which turned out to be a tragic mistake. He supported the PCI despite the fact that they tried to disown him when...