Word: lissner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark's estimates were close to those made by the New York Times's Will Lissner (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947). Nevertheless, none of his comparisons was likely to give the democratic world any conviction that Russia was politically unstable. In spite of a low IU, the police state still had the means to enforce poverty at home, to concentrate on conquest abroad...
...Russian workers last week continued to rejoice over what they could buy with their new rubles, the New York Times's careful Will Lissner cut through the mishmash of economic terms, got down to a bedrock comparison. He drew up a comparative table showing what the Soviet and U.S. worker must give in working time in order to get the same quantities of food and other items. Samples...
Comparisons such as Lissner's would not prove that capitalism was a better system than Soviet socialism. They did prove, however, that 30 years after the Revolution, Russia was still giving its workers less than 10% of what an "exploited" worker under capitalism got for his labor. If the Russian worker got ten times as much instead of a tenth as much, he might-just possibly-consider that living in a police state was worth the price...