Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assault by Dogma. Last week, day after the Laski speech, Bank of England stock, which rates as a trustee security, fell ?9½, down to ?357½. Governor Thomas Sivewright Catto and his fellow bankers sat tight. Nationalization would mean that the bank's ?14,533,000 capital stock, held by some 35,000 Englishmen, would be bought by the British Treasury...
...Robert Lacoste, veteran trade unionist and Minister of Industrial Production in General de Gaulle's Government, expounded a revolutionary dogma for France's economy...
...this dogma, said Minister Lacoste, a new system was being built. Deep-rooted French individual enterprise would be largely uprooted. All branches of industrial and food production-coal, steel, textiles, etc.-would operate under the Government's "provisional commissioners." "Sixty such officials, responsible to the Ministry of Production and appointed with the advice of the trade unions, were already at work. The state would decide what to produce, how to allocate materials and manpower. The commissioners would have advisory councils ("professional offices") composed equally of workers and employers...
...that face, for it was something new under the sun. The stubborn fact about the face of Stalin was that it was less the face of a man than of a historic force. It was the face of the first proletarian Bolshevik to become unquestioned lawgiver and dispenser of dogma to a party whose 4,600,000 members were bound to absolute obedience by an iron-clad discipline. It was also the face of the absolute ruler of some 180,000,000 people of 170 nationalities, living in one-sixth of the earth's surface, in a socialist empire...
Some critics charged that Stalin had ceased, paradoxically, to be a revolutionist, at the moment when the Communist revolution was most successful. If it suited his present purposes, Stalin might have reminded his critics that he was the author of Russia's two official volumes of orthodox dogma: The History of the Communist Party and Leninism. Leninism is a best-seller (3,000,000 copies were sold a week after publication...