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Khrushchev repeats Lenin's confident prediction, unfulfilled in 40 decades of imminent capitalist collapse. The program reports the "increasing proletarization in capitalist society," blandly and blindly ignoring the fact that since Lenin's day, the exact opposite has happened. Indeed, the document is so frequently divorced from reality and lurches so inconsistently from ethics to history, pedagogy to sociology, that Swiss Soviet Expert Ernst Kux concludes: "Khrushchev's program reveals the decline of Soviet ideology and its inability to come to grips with the problems of our time...
...Khrushchev's "romanticism," as some Western experts label his repeated rejection of fact, is not necessarily a source of comfort for the West. Abroad, should it lead Khrushchev to believe his own propaganda about capitalist weakness, it could lead to fatal miscalculation and war. And at home, so far, it has not noticeably weakened his grip. Though Khrushchev has dismantled much of Stalin's police state, he has shrewdly rebuilt the Communist Party-demoralized under Stalin-as Russia's dominant force. In fact, the Khrushchev Code almost lyrically extols the party and promises that even in that...
...moderate, modern social and economic program, he routed the party's Marxian "fundamentalists," offered Britain's prosperous working class a package that was hardly more radical than the Tory platform. Over opposition from Laborites who fear that nationalization of British industry may be impeded by capitalist competition, Gaitskell clinched his victory by blocking a mischievous resolution opposing British membership in the European Common Market, and substituting a heavily conditioned but practical endorsement...
...Russia is now entering the ranks of those nations wealthy enough to be able to raise the prices paid to farmers and thus make collective work more profitable than private." In other words, Moscow may finally achieve its Communist goal when it has enough ready money to afford the capitalist technique of subsidizing the farmers...
...Russians more than they do the United States and therefore are less disposed to censure Soviet policies. Many of them certainly have good ideological reasons for such a preference. Tito and Castro are avowed communists, and some neutrals with colonial memories slip easily into a Leninist conception of capitalist states as inherently exploitative and aggressive in their foreign policies...