Word: elitist
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...growth world would have extreme difficulty providing either social justice or freedom. It is hard to see how growth could be halted, or even substantially slowed, without a world dictatorship-the more so as citizens of underdeveloped countries already suspect that the no-growth argument is an elitist, aristocratic, white man's conspiracy to lock them into perpetual poverty. It would do little good to stop growth in the U.S. if it raged on in Algeria and Indonesia. At minimum, people would have to be told that they could not buy the flush toilets or transistor radios that they...
...draw a stipend without doing any studying, or he may get a sham job in a factory that he will visit only to pick up his wages. He thus can remain attached to his sports club and concentrate on his specialty while at the same time leading an elitist life in the supposedly classless society. He can get any food he wants in any quantity, even the fresh citrus fruits not generally available to the rest of the population. His income, for doing no work, is above average even without Santa's bonuses...
...must accept that, for most of us unwilling to change our social class completely, we are not the leaders of the Movement. Standing above the day-to-day struggle, we are still capable of rendering effective aid even if most of us will probably help in semi-professional elitist capacities as intellectuals, journalists, doctors,or lawyers...
Clearly Harvard's complicity in American imperialism extends far beyond the ownership of Gulf stock. With such obvious ties to the war machine at home, we must challenge the elitist Harvard assumption that the problem is only "out there...
Daniel Hirsch '72, one of the demonstrators, said that students at Harvard are part of an elitist economic and political hierarchy that wields power in wide areas. Because of the emphasis on grades and success, students must submit to the Harvard education "which produces people who perpetuate our oppressive, exploitive society," he said...