Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pennsylvania, the administration listened. The Faculty Council says it wants to listen--and it is up to us to give the Council a chance to make good on its claim...
There are non-Marxian socialists, but all owe some debt to Karl Marx, who framed the classic socialist indictment of capitalism, accusing it of turning labor into a commodity and thus exploiting and dehumanizing workers while it enriches bourgeois owners. Most important, perhaps, was Marx's claim that he had discovered certain "scientific" laws of history. By creating an increasingly numerous and impoverished working class, goes his familiar argument, capitalism produced the very forces that one day would destroy it in an Apocalypse of violent revolution. This confident prediction, which for more than a century inspired nearly all socialists with...
Socialism has spurred Western democracies to examine the inadequacies of the capitalist system. But today the record of socialism deserves even more careful scrutiny than that of capitalism. In whatever form, socialism makes far greater claims and far more sweeping promises than capitalism does, which is a major reason for its wide appeal. But socialism rarely lives up to its promises. Stalin's Gulag and Mao's violent Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution?which represents socialism in its extreme form?give the lie to the Marxist claim that it is necessarily capitalism and not socialism that enslaves the human spirit. Economically...
...Kremlin insists that inflation does not exist in the Soviet Union, and there is no Western-style CPI to disprove the claim. Nonetheless, consumer prices are raised at times by state decree; the government represents those changes as progress toward a more rational ordering of the controlled economy. Last week such "progress" cost Soviet consumers dearly...
...begun with From Here to Eternity and extended through The Thin Red Line. Whistle, Jones wrote, would "say just about everything I have ever had to say, or will ever have to say, on the human condition of war and what it means to us, as against what we claim it means to us." Measured against that aspiration, the book proves that Jones either had nothing more to say about war's meaning or else was silenced before his mission could be completed...