Word: manifestoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CAPITALIST MANIFESTO (265 pp.) -Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler -Random House...
...wife, Adler was the first person to see the book; U.S. readers will see it shortly under the sweepingly simple title Capitalism. So challenging did Adler find Kelso's ideas that he proposed the two men collaborate on a kind of popular preview. Says Adler confidently: "The Capitalist Manifesto is to Capitalism what The Communist Manifesto was to Das Kapital...
...Capitalist Manifesto approaches economics and political science, where expediency is apt to rule, in terms of morality and natural law. It asks not only "Will it work?" but above all "Is it just...
Economic Citizenship. The vision at the heart of The Capitalist Manifesto is that automation will make the machine the superslave of man. Just as in the Greek state the slave-owning few were freed from toil to pursue the duties of citizenship and the work of civilization, so all men could be similarly freed (argue K. & A.) in a future society where machines are slaves. In such a society, men could shun the "subsistence work" and "drudgery" involved in the production of "goods of the body" and-apart from the necessary tasks of management-turn to the arts and sciences...
Bells of Defiance. Triggering the last brutal round was a crudely mimeographed manifesto calling for a general strike. The strike showed sinews of strength from the start. The morning before the deadline, grocery stores were crowded by foresighted housewives laying in supplies; knots of grim-faced workers idled on street corners. Half an hour before strike time, steel shutters slammed down on store fronts, and the usual bumper-to-bumper downtown traffic dwindled away to eerie emptiness. Then, from steeple after steeple, bells clanged out the Roman Catholic Church's defiance of the dictator and the signal...