Word: classlessness
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Clad in a flowing sports shirt as sign of his membership in a classless revolution, Lopez Fresquet turned up at his office and ended the joke. "I'm dead serious about this tax," he said. The law will discourage "conspicuous consumption" and besides, might net $5,000,000 a year. Cuban society editors, who have always collected an under-the-table fee for social puffs, will lose a profitable racket...
...tung nevertheless leaned over the proceedings. Perhaps Red China's Mao knew that his ideas would not prevail. Breaking the long official Soviet silence on Red China's "big leap" to create communes throughout the countryside in 1958, Khrushchev declared that Communism-the ultimate, classless form of human society described by Marx, Engels and Lenin ("To each according to his need")-cannot be achieved without first building socialism ("To each according to his work...
Both Russia and Japan started programs of technical advancement by rejecting Christianity; and in the process they had to set up new absolutes. In Russia the idea of the Kingdom of God was transformed into the vision of the classless society; Japan instituted emperor-worship and the messianic mission of the Japanese people. Bishop Newbigin believes that technical culture is not religiously neutral. If it does not keep its roots in the Christian faith, it will have to find a new absolute, and will become demonic...
...ministerial bureaucrats "line up in front of the administration buildings" and perform calisthenics -"mildly incongruous," perhaps, but "nothing [is] more reasonable than the principle of compulsory physical education." Such "germ carriers" as "dogs and cats" have been liquidated. The overall result is "a perfect image of a classless society" -a conclusion with which few readers are likely to quarrel. ¶ "From the train . . . window" the peasants were "all decently dressed." Only about 5,000 of the big shots among them have been "executed." Moreover, there have been "editorials guaranteeing a comfortable future to former landowners and rich peasants who have...
...serious problem in the U.S.S.R.; there has been in particular a disconcerting rise in schizophrenia since the war. In theory, no such thing as a neurotic exists in the U.S.S.R., since it is held that mixed-up people and misfits with personal conflicts cannot arise in a "classless" society. Psychoanalysis does not exist in the Soviet Union...