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...category. It is true, they maintain, that whites serving in Vietnam have been unduly victimized, and that "the degradation of [being] forced into lives of anti-human work" has resulted in social and cultural disadvantages. But most whites, they say, are too contented with the economic benefits of the capitalist system to challenge it, and may even be prospering from the wealth which America extracts from Third World peoples...
...people. It gave land to the peasants; slashed rents and utility prices: regulated foreign-owned industries and when they refused to comply, nationalized them. Cuba refused to accept U. S. dictates about foreign or domestic policy, and began political and economic relations with socialist as well as capitalist countries. With each new revolutionary law, it became clearer that the only road to freedom and economic development was socialism...
Political development means something more. Pedro explains, "The most important thing is that during my work in the Revolution, the Revolution has been building me as a new man, taking out capitalist ways of acting and building communist ones." Hugo, the oldest, describes this as "fighting inside myself against the old ways of thinking." To become a Young Communist or Party member one must of course meet certain ideological standards. But primarily, the members of our brigade were nomi...
...film's formal statement, is too varied to effectively catalogue here, but includes a great deal of crude psycho-social imagery concerning the fall of idealism since the second World War: the role of women rockets, Hitler, an extra ordinary passage on growing old, and the market in neo-capitalist society, as well as some intense visuals suggestive of the work of Francis Bacon, animated collages of fashion models, a woman dressed in black leather whose dramatic relation (if indeed she has one) is never made clear, a stripper and a slaughter-house sequence more forceful than anything in Franju...
...measure of the generation gap approximates the size of his own credibility gap. To prove that youth has spurned business, he cites a questionnaire distributed to Harvard seniors. As Harvard goes, so goes the nation-therefore, Gerzon concludes from the poll, youth has rejected business. The hoary old capitalist machine will probably run down for lack of personnel. Using the same assumptions, one might conduct a poll of the Harvard faculty to check what "adults" are thinking about Spiro Agnew. Had Gerzon really wished to look up the soaring enrollment in business administration and the parallel decline of liberal arts...