Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual salaries of Jimmy Carter and the chief executive officer of the average large U.S. corporation. But because Marxist-Leninist societies are short of goods, a comfortable life-style depends less on money than on privileged access to scarce materials and services. In capitalist or mixed economies, by contrast, money usually provides access to luxury...
What ultimately sustains all forms of socialism is the inherent appeal of an ideology promising to remake society in a manner that will foster a "new man" ?assured of his material needs, emotionally and psychologically unfettered and bursting with creativity. To this the socialists like to contrast "heartless capitalism," with its alleged willingness to tolerate permanent working-class poverty. The reality that the socialist promise is largely unfulfilled is not viewed as conclusive by its ideologues. In answer they would probably paraphrase G.K. Chesterton to the effect that socialism, like Christianity, has not failed, because it has never been...
...Castro's forces triumphed in Cuba in 1959, nearly one-quarter of the population could neither read nor write. Compulsory primary education and an ambitious classroom construction program have reduced illiteracy to 4%. Cuban infant mortality is 29 per 1,000 and average life expectancy is 70 years. By contrast, the nearby Dominican Republic has a 32% illiteracy rate, infant mortality of 98 per 1,000 and an average life expectancy of only 58 years...
Reports TIME Correspondent David Wood: "Luhanga, in contrast to many Tanzanian villages, is well on its way to Nyerere's socialist goal. The volunteer village militia combats crime, the village-owned dispensary and clinic combat disease, the village-owned furniture shop and tinsmithy combat unemployment. A women's cooperative sells milk and soft drinks, while profits from the village's enterprises fund a school and day-care center. Although each family has a private Shamba (plot) on which to grow its own food, its members are encouraged to work in the communal enterprises. Instead of pay, they...
...other East bloc states, education and medical care are free, while cultural and sporting activities are plentiful and cheap with opera tickets costing $1.50. In contrast to their Warsaw Pact allies, most of the 10 million Hungarians are free to travel to the West; a surprisingly wide variety of books, magazines, movies and records from non-Communist countries are available...