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...order is so sweeping, Sik's reform could well light a beacon that would illuminate the economies of all Communism. A failure could as easily bring the glacier of centralism crashing down again. In any event, Communism as an economic philosophy has already been altered beyond Marxian recognition. All that will be left of the Communist system is state ownership of property. The problems and the motives of the entire economy will be enterprising and free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: Toward Market Economics | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...takes justfiiable pride in his international reputation. A member of the Russian delegation to a Congress of Sociologists told him recently that he was the most eminent non-Marxian sociologist in the world. He has bookshelves filled with his own works and their translations into virtually every major language...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: Pitirim A. Sorokin | 11/5/1966 | See Source »

Comrade Leonard Makepeace is a provincial bicycle mechanic with a passion for the Marxian notion that man (and society) is perfectible on earth. This passion he dissipates happily in tavern talk until he meets a delectable but distant schoolmistress from Lenin grad. Rejected in love, he goes after power and one day discovers in a volume of Indian theosophy the technique of "mental magnetism." He realizes he can make anybody do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes from Underground | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...firm that sounds as if it had been founded by Jules Verne; Compagnie d'Applications Mecaniques à 1'Electronique au Cinéma et à 1'Atomistique (CAMECA). Since then it has spread from Marseilles to Macao; Nikita Khrushchev even has one, loaded with Marxian uplift featurettes. Actually, Scopitone's "musies" are descended from U.S. Soundies, which during World War II filled bus terminals and B-girl grottoes with grainy, black-and-white productions of The Flat Foot Floogee with the Floy Floy and A Boy in Khaki, a Girl in Lace. Television and Lucky Strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Scooby-Ooby Scopitone | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...high taxes were levied against them." He suggested the matter be attended to. Last week the Yugoslav Parliament was preparing to pass a new tax law that "will not discourage the development of crafts." The party's official mouthpiece, Belgrade's Daily Borba, offered a distinctly non-Marxian rationale for the retreat: "The law treats private craftsmen as an additional but significant economic branch which fits well in the system of socialist economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Return of the Baker | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

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