Word: manifestoes
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...involved wrenching social changes, as people whose families had lived on the land for centuries moved to often crowded, filthy urban industrial centers. Yet this early capitalism represented for millions an escape from a still more oppressive rural poverty. Even Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto that capitalism "during its rule of scarcely 100 years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together...
...their 1978 manifesto The North Will Rise Again, Jeremy Rifkin and Randy Barber estimated that "over $200 billion in pension-fund capital comes from the combined deferred savings of 19 million union members and the public employee funds of the 16 states that make up the northeast/midwest corridor." All pension-fund portfolios could total $1.3 trillion by the late 1980s, controlling half the securities of U.S. industry, according to recent calculations in Fortune magazine...
...Ambassador Ricardo Galan, representing the hostages-both sides had apparently made some concessions. The terrorists, under the orders of a mysterious masked chieftain called Comandante Uno, reportedly scaled down their original ransom demand from $50 million to $10 million; they also stopped insisting on worldwide dissemination of their revolutionary manifesto. For its part, the government promised a kind of prearranged amnesty for the entrenched terrorists by offering them safe passage out of the country and a plane to fly them to countries of asylum. At week's end Fidel Castro offered Cuba as a haven...
...terrorists, members of the M-19 guerrilla movement, demand $50 million in cash, the release of political prisoners, worldwide publication of a guerrilla manifesto and a safe conduct pledge...
...What is Communism but total government control?" McManus asks honestly ignorant of any answer. Every political issue fits into the government/Communist control spectrum. "Are you aware that one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto is free public education?" he inquires with a smile. "You don't have a right to an education." He smiles some more when he describes how the society is spreading the good word: the speakers bureau is the second largest in the country(only Sports Illustrated's is bigger) and schedule people like ex-Marine hero Lewis Millett to expound the society line on grueling...