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...renewed the Soviet call for a European security conference and issued the standard warning to Israel to withdraw from occupied Arab lands. Brezhnev also declared that a U.S. defeat in Viet Nam, which he described as "inevitable," would be proof of the changing balance of power between the capitalist and Communist blocs...
...faintest notion of what practical strategy and tactics could achieve his revolutionary goals. In many ways, Lenin revised-some would say subverted-the teachings of his proclaimed mentor. Marx predicted that the revolution would be possible only in industrially advanced nations, as the inevitable culmination of capitalist development. Lenin demonstrated that a successful Socialist revolution could take place in a backward, predominantly peasant country-thereby turning Communism into a practical program that could be applied to the underdeveloped world rather than to Europe alone. The economics of Marxism are hopelessly antiquated today, and its appeal as a secular religion...
...ills they are intended to cure. Beyond that, the viability of Lenin's thought has been affected by social changes he did not, indeed could not, account for. Like many another Marxist, he grossly underrated the productive vitality and capacity for change in what he considered a moribund capitalist world. Lenin also did not have to confront today's youth. There is a fine irony in the fact that in many nations the revolutionary party he helped create is regarded as reactionary by the anti-Establishment young-witness the ferocious diatribes against French Communism by students involved...
...fundamental contradiction of capitalist society is between a revolutionary technology and conservative decision-making," he said. But he added that one cannot say, " 'Let's stop the technology altogether,' " he added. "If you have that solution you are condemning people to death because the people of the earth will not have enough...
...human and natural resources for the profit which they might yield. Man and nature both have a higher potential than to be oppressed for quick dollars. The ecology campaign must strike right at the heart of the industrialized insensitive society, where it destroys natural beauty for a capitalist or a socialist fatherland...