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...year delay of Phase 2--which serve the racists and threaten black-white unity in this immediate struggle and are obstacles to the development of a common struggle of the labor movement and oppressed minorities against all the government cutbacks and layoffs affecting working people in this period of capitalist austerity. Robert Pearlman
...stylish prose will be particularly pleased with this work. In recent books-notably Economics and the Public Purpose, published in 1973, which argued for a "new socialism"-Galbraith has seemed tediously preachy. In Money he has recovered the gently acerbic touch that he displayed as a reformist capitalist, and that made popular such books as The Affluent Society and the New Industrial State. Sample putdown: "Those who talk of money and teach about it and make their living by it gain prestige, esteem and pecuniary return, as does a doctor or a witch doctor, from cultivating the belief that they...
Rich and Poor. The Latin American theologians who developed this strange alliance of Marx and Jesus see nothing contradictory in it. For an explanation of the chasm between rich and poor, between First World and Third World, they went to Marxist analysis and decided that the problem is capitalist oppression. For a solution of its ills, they went to Christian thought and Scriptures and concluded that Christians have a spiritual mandate to struggle on the side of the downtrodden. Jesus himself, they point out, citing the fourth chapter of Luke, declared early in his public life that he had come...
...ages." Toward the impressive contemporary Europe of Beethoven, Hegel, Napoleon and Goethe, the rude frontiersman was patronizing: his own land was the democratic future, free of the Old World's privileges and wars. "Every stroke of the ax and hoe," Henry Adams wrote sardonically, "made him a capitalist and made gentlemen of his children...
Soviet officials now act as if the whole idea were a Western concoction. "There never was any such thing as 'the Brezhnev Doctrine,' " a Soviet official said recently with a perfectly straight face. "Such talk was a propaganda fabrication by the bourgeois capitalist press." When pressed, however, Soviet officials concede that "Socialist Internationalism"-the principle that the Soviet Union has the right to come to the rescue of socialist states abroad-is still very much in force...