Word: marxisms
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...their ranting against it. But the current search for incentives to get the Russian economy moving again is nonetheless an eloquent testimony to the failure of one of Communism's cardinal creeds: that the profit motive is wrong and evil, and unnecessary in running a society. People, insists Marxism, can be made to work like soldiers-or saints-solely for the good of the state. The great debate, whatever comes of it, has demonstrated that this is simply not so; that given a chance, man does not want to live by slogan alone...
...Cornish lawyer, Tippett was raised in Suffolk, and attended London's Royal College of Music. As a student, he flirted with Marxism but was later bitterly disillusioned, has since occupied "the middle ground of compassion"-pacifism; in 1943 he was bounced into prison for three months for refusing to do war work. From his hatred of violence was born A Child of Our Times, begun with the encouragement of Tippett's Monopoly partner and "sort of father," the late poet T. S. Eliot, the day that World War II broke...
...Pravda cocked an eyebrow recently at the Great Sewing Machine Scandal. A decade ago, the Soviet Union was short on sewing machines, so Marxism's planners pressed the "on" button. Immediately factories began competing to see who could turn out more sewing machines faster. Result: Russian seamstresses are awash in a sea of treadles and bobbins. "We have more than 150,000 machines accumulated here," complained a worker at the Podolsk Sewing Machine Factory, "and still we are making thousands of them every...
...Cambodia's Jayavarman VII, the builder of Angkor Wat. Today leftist Prince Sihanouk, as Cambodia's Chief of State and High Protector of the Buddhist religion, assiduously cultivates the god-king role. Following the Buddhist road of the middle, intones Sihanouk, he means to be halfway between capitalism and Marxism at home and neutralist abroad...
...month ago he was anathema: the Yellow Peril, the shameless Pervert of True Marxism-Leninism, the terrible Trotskyite Deviationist and Splitter. Last week, as he stood bundled in a greatcoat and karakul cap atop Lenin's Tomb watching the rockets roll by, Red China's Chou En-lai presumably was still all these things to the fallen Nikita Khrushchev, who was nowhere to be seen, and possibly to many other Russians who have little love for the Chinese. But officially he was the honored guest from the great fraternal Chinese People's Republic, and this just three...