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...injustices that happened under capitalism. But, he now acknowledges, 'those of us who were critical of capitalism were ... too uncritical of the Marxist alternative." This was true, says Niebuhr, even of those who "rejected the Communist version of Marxism" and sought "democratic Marxism." Niebuhr is 'ready to confess to his complicity in these errors," but is still against "the ridiculous dogma of laissez faire...
...before the 1914-18 war-key figures posted and ... a whole conditioning process taking place while one looks helplessly on ... More effectively than anything else, [the BBC monopoly] enables those set in authority to impose on the rest of us a pattern of thought and of feeling ... I must confess that escape, even into the arms of J. Fred Muggs, is a delectable prospect...
...Madrid, but once he laid eyes on lovely, humble Amparo, the other senoritas had no chance. He proposed and Amparo accepted. There was just one problem: Amparo had once been seduced by a sinful priest, who kept popping up and asking for further favors. She was too weak to confess to her suitor, too decent to deceive him. To make matters worse, there were people who knew about her slip and were just envious enough to tell all to Agustin...
...Fear itself is corrosive. Fear and freedom cannot co-exist....I am deeply disturbed when I encounter American citizens of blameless character and unquestioned loyalty who confess they fear to enter a debate or take a position not in conformity with the views of certain political leaders, because of the fancied danger they will be thought suspect...
After a long, tinhorn odyssey in exile, Tom comes back to Paris and finds himself a wife. But boredom draws him into the arms of a mistress, who gives him excitement, trouble and baby Paul in short order, together with an urge to confess his shortcomings: "As for marks . . . zero, zero, zero-in conduct, in morality...