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...political system and believes in gradual, peaceful means of reaching its socialist goals. In practical terms, this has meant that social democrats have concentrated more on alleviating what they regard as hardships created by capitalist economies (unemployment, salary and wage inequities) than on directly restructuring societies according to a collectivist blueprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Socialism: Trials and Errors | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...warned that "a program inspired by collectivist ideas would plunge France into economic disorder." Those who planned to cast protest votes against the government in the belief that the President would keep a leftist Assembly from passing radical measures must beware: "You can choose the [left's program], but it will be carried out. Don't think that the President has the constitutional means to prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Giscard's Call | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...objectives in mind. Publicly, he has stressed the need for a dramatic pitch to hold the disgruntled lower and middle classes in the conservative-to-center fold. Without a concerted "anti-collectivist" campaign, he has warned with a note of alarm over the past year, the petite bourgeoisie will give the Socialist-Communist coalition the seats in the National Assembly it needs in the 1978 elections to control government initiatives...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: A Snake in Wolf's Clothing | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

...paper also takes stands on personal conduct in everyday life. Ergo reprints each fall a sermon-like article by Wright, for the benefit of incoming freshmen. The article applies libertarian principles to college life, and finds it sadly collectivist: "There is, on university campuses today, a vicious killer loose: a destructive force that can sap the minds and souls of the strongest men. That killer is peer pressure. Do not say that you can value both your ideals and the approval of the group. The group will not have you on such terms--you must adapt to theirs...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Ergo: The right point of view | 12/2/1976 | See Source »

...Binh herself last week emphasized that North-South differences "in the economic and political field" will require "a certain period of time to realize reunification." Highly capitalistic and individualistic, the South will no doubt have to undergo some profound changes before it can be successfully assimilated into the socialist, collectivist society of the North. "The North fears the seductive life of the South, compared with the disciplined, austere, spartan life in the North," says one State Department Viet Nam specialist. "They do not want their people contaminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The End of a Thirty Years' War | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

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