Word: classless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made almost no progress toward closing the considerable income gaps between the nation's highest-and lowest-paid workers-let alone creating the classless society of popular myth. Unlike Henle, who based his conclusions on the wages of family breadwinners, the earlier researchers used figures reflecting total family incomes, including "transfer payments" like Social Security. But the results still showed persistent if not growing inequality. The bottom and top fifths of American families had about the same shares of total family income in 1970 as they...
...intellectually self-conscious without being intellectually independent; they adhere to CP ideology in a manner which restricts their ability to live constructively' even though in their own eyes it is what saves them from being victims of U.S, capitalism. They place their hope in the Marxist ideal of classless society without possessing Marz`s Knowledge of how that ideal must take root in a specific historical content. They join with the religion of Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique of working class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American politics; to a rejection...
...Resistance refer to themselves as black sheep, outlaws. Their neighbors treated them as such, the Graves claim. They were dismissed as terrorists, then, when the Liberation came, as profiteers. D'Asteir de la Vigerie cherishes it as the one time he lived in a classless society because they were all outside society. Grave recalls that at the first gathering of what became the Resistance, they sang "The Internationale." "We had to sing something, and the Petainists had "The Marseillaise...
American scientists have good reason to be envious. Even though the Soviet Union is in theory a classless society, Soviet scientists are a powerful and privileged elite. Better paid than most of their countrymen, they enjoy superior housing, ownership of private cars, long-term job security, and perhaps most important of all, the freedom to read many Western journals and literature. Science, too, occupies a special place in the minds of government officials, who are frankly puzzled by those Westerners who are now vilifying modern science and its goals. "How could there be any antiscientific feeling in the Soviet Union...
...doing any studying, or he may get a sham job in a factory that he will visit only to pick up his wages. He thus can remain attached to his sports club and concentrate on his specialty while at the same time leading an elitist life in the supposedly classless society. He can get any food he wants in any quantity, even the fresh citrus fruits not generally available to the rest of the population. His income, for doing no work, is above average even without Santa's bonuses...