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...version, Dictator Stalin made no horrible mistakes until 1934, when "he began to believe in his own infallibility" and grew deaf to his comrades' advice. Among his biggest boners: the purges of the late '30s, trusting Hitler, feuding with Tito, believing in inevitable war between capitalist and socialist states. "Stalinism" is now officially a tainted word, but that is not Joe's fault: "The term is an invention of reactionary imperialist circles...
...lamenting: "I am sorry now that I quit the concert stage because of politics. I see now that I should have gone on with my work." To some, these words sounded like a contrite solo, but Robeson himself soon drowned them out with the bizarre protest that the capitalist press was maligning him as a nonCommunist. Rumbled Robeson: "These nice people are trying to make me as they want me-to save me from my better self. I have not changed my views in the slightest about anything!" His afterthought: "I must make a speech after I sing...
Economic Citizenship. The vision at the heart of The Capitalist Manifesto is that automation will make the machine the superslave of man. Just as in the Greek state the slave-owning few were freed from toil to pursue the duties of citizenship and the work of civilization, so all men could be similarly freed (argue K. & A.) in a future society where machines are slaves. In such a society, men could shun the "subsistence work" and "drudgery" involved in the production of "goods of the body" and-apart from the necessary tasks of management-turn to the arts and sciences...
...custody of the state. Result: tyranny. Marx's error, say K. & A., was his failure to see that the culprit was not the institution of private property itself, but undue concentration of capital in a few hands. The Kelso-Adler answer: decentralize capital, make everybody a "citizen-capitalist...
Despite violent objections, The Capitalist Manifesto, by its very existence, refutes the charge that capitalist thought has lost the imaginative flexibility to cope with the challenges of the age. Above all, the book forces the reader to re-examine the foundation and the future of capitalism, not merely as an economic but as an ethical system. As the authors put it: "We cannot [unlike Marx and Engels] exhort them to engage in violence, and to do so without fear because they have nothing to lose but their chains . . . Men who think they already have all the liberty and justice they...