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...Left for what seemed to be a conviction that a bureaucratic capitalism will, in the end, win out. Jungle is a play which does not provide clear alternatives of good vs, evil, left vs, right, but rather shows a pair of opponents both of whom are unlikable, racist, capitalist, and generally unseemly...
...Berns fears that pornography makes men unrulable, however, Marcuse thinks that it makes them tame. Marcuse objects to sexual permissiveness because he thinks it is a safety valve that keeps people from exploding and breaking up the System. To him, the relaxation of sexual taboos is a sort of capitalist plot. "Desub-limation," as he calls it, is therefore repressive...
...Mark C. Frazier '74 leader of RLA, said that members of the organization advocate life styles "ranging from capitalist individualism to syndicalist communalism," but that all of them support the building of an anarchic, anti-authoritarian society...
Outside the official economy is a second, or countereconomy, which functions informally and in the best capitalist tradition. Collective farmers from Georgia and the Caucasus jet to Moscow with loads of fresh vegetables grown in their private plots and unload them for two to three times the price of wilted produce in the official market. Western-made clothing and shoes are available in government-sanctioned "commission" shops. There is also a black market in Western clothing, supplying trendy and kinky threads to modish Russians. Cost of a pair of white jeans: $30. Some items come right off the backs...
EAST GERMANY: For the past seven years, Walter Ulbricht's fiefdom has been the East bloc's star performer, running up statistics that many capitalist countries would envy. From 1966 to 1970, foreign trade increased 60%; industrial output rose 37%, making East Germany the ninth greatest industrial power; and the national income gained 29% to reach $29.5 billion. The East German regime is all the more proud of this achievement because it was accomplished without granting an ounce more political freedom to the people, defying the generally accepted thesis that economic reform inevitably reduces political control. The East...