Word: classlessness
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What was the "progressive movement"? Was it progressive to seek to shorten bread and soup lines by paying for the raising of less wheat, corn, sugar, and pigs? Was it progressive to array class against class in a theretofore classless nation? Was it progressive for the administration to make international commitments secretly? Was it progressive to place in the hands of a few men the power to halt production and paralyze transport? Is it progressive so to restrict industry through myriad conflicting controls that the machine which armed the anti-axis world cannot today supply the essential needs...
Zest & Relevance. This president, a Harvard man himself, can talk about "American culture" without a semblance of snobbishness. But he is quite as likely to talk about a "classless society...
...advance his Jeffersonian ideas of equal educational opportunity and what he calls a fluid, classless society, Conant has become a vigorous essayist. It got him into one jam with the Corporation. Conant's "Wanted: American Radicals," in the May 1943 Atlantic Monthly, "urged the need of the American radical not because I wish to give a blanket endorsement to his views, but because I see the necessity of reinvigorating a neglected aspect of our . . . development." Conant said that "the kernel of [this] radical philosophy" would be a "demand to confiscate [by constitutional methods] all property once a generation...
...More precisely, soft seats. The Soviets have substituted this two-class system of rail travel for the old Czarist three-class system of blue (luxurious), yellow (well off) and green (poor) cars. Abolition of classes in the classless society has meant that social differences are replaced by differences in material quality of the seats. The difference in cost remains...
...Moscow intellectuals on April 17 reached the U.S. It was important because it put into clear, connected words a picture of how Russian leaders see their country. Introverts & Extroverts. Yudin gave an exegesis of the revised revelation on one of Marx's key texts: that once the classless society has been achieved, "a special repressive force, a state, is no longer necessary. . . . The state is not abolished, it withers away." What needed explaining was the hothouse growth of state power in Soviet Russia...