Word: capitalists
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...value-structure that legitimizes capitalist society has been too deeply imbedded in the people of this country for it to be pried loose in any short time. It will take a long time...
...blame for this situation can be placed on two undefeated teams, and Harvard Stadium, which seats only 40,000. Despite the fact that many students are being led into wallowing sin, observant Ec 1 students are getting a good look at how a good capitalist system works...
Their dishonesty fell into two main patterns. They willfully blinkered themselves against the fact, obvious to Orwell, that British society and ultimately the socialist movement itself rested on imperialist exploitation and the comparative prosperity it conferred on worker and capitalist alike. Dishonesty also expressed itself in the left by a simultaneous clamor for a "strong line" against Hitler (read "war") and demands for peace and disarmament. The British intellectuals, wrote Orwell in August 1941, "for ten dreadful years have kept it up that Hitler is merely a figure out of comic opera. All this reflects is the sheltered condition...
...three of his black friends are robbing Ed, the father, at his safe. While Paul has explained in the scene before that his father will surely open his safe and count his money at three in the morning, it's hard to believe that even super-capitalist Ed would actually get out of bed to do this. During the robbery attempt, as one of the boys tries to smash Ed on the back of the head with a bottle, the victim pulls out a gun and fires it into the air. This quick thinking seems a bit too quick...
...Both are committed to the system, and anything either might do would be insignificant," he said. "We want to change the current foreign policy to one of genuine help for underdeveloped nations. Even McCarthy, working within the present capitalist system, could not have succeeded...