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...which told the dropout generation where to get the information to do its own thing-cultivate organic food, build geodesic domiciles, grow pot. The volume went through 14 printings, sold 1.2 million copies, won a prestigious National Book Award and turned Publisher Stewart Brand, 35, into an old-fashioned capitalist...
...American pie has perhaps been expanding over the last century, but it is yet to be proven that this economic expansion is attributable to, or in spite of the grapplings of the new upwardly mobile business elite. Perhaps Thorstein Veblen had a better understanding of the workings of a capitalist-industrial economy when he detailed the anti-social nature of business. In Veblen's view, business is forced by its basic orientation of profit-seeking into a policy of "sabotage" of production. It must fight against the "inordinate productivity of the machine" by keeping prices high and supply limited. Until...
...good thing, and in any case, an inescapable thing--if it's a good ideology." The radical faculty at Harvard takes pride in having a point of view, and insists that all scholars have points of view. The radicals think the senior faculty's bias toward maintaining the capitalist social system is concealed by its seemingly value-free work. MacEwan says that "to work to help coordinate the economy and advise the government--as many orthodox economists do--is to make an implicit decision in favor of the system that is in existence...
...Nixon or Ford or the leader of any capitalist society, the radicals say, is to favor the type of society these presidents seek to maintain--the traditional professor's cries of value-free scholarship not-withstanding...
...immediate intolerance does not threaten the radical sociologists, the general problem of working in a traditional university does. Radical sociologists say that Harvard trains its students to function as productive members of capitalist society, that it inculcates a bourgeois ideology, and that the hierarchical relationships in the university and the classroom reflect the hierarchy of capitalist society...