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...forced Chambers' thought processes into a rigid either-or frame that, once accepted, he could never escape-and it led naturally to a trust in Marxism. He was incapable of dealing with ideas as an intellectual game. "For me," he confessed, "an idea was the starting point of an act." He entered college in the early '20s as a sobersided conservative who thought Calvin Coolidge was the greatest Republican since Lincoln, and he left college convinced that the walls of civilization had cracked and were at the toppling point. "I felt that the world was too old," Chambers...
Neocapitalism is a blend of expansive private enterprise, extensive social-welfare programs and selective government intervention-a syncretism of capitalism's proven methods with some of socialism's less extreme aims. It has already made doctrinaire Marxism outdated, changed many socialists into business-minded pragmatists and made social workers out of many capitalists. Though Britain's victorious Labor Party leaned farther to the left than was expected in setting up a government last week (see THE WORLD), its reassurances to private enterprise are typical of the change. Said Laborite Douglas Jay, new president of the Board...
...tends to divide into two," which is the very foundation for Peking's dialectical battle with Moscow. According to the "one-into-two theory," disputes are never resolved except by force, so that Moscow's cherished concept of peaceful coexistence is impossible. "The contradictions and struggle between Marxism-Leninism and modern revisionism can not be dealt with by mediation," warns Peking...
While Western businessmen are traveling behind the Iron Curtain in increasing numbers, Western ideas are crossing the frontiers with even greater impact -and some of them are stirring up a kind of revolution. Beset by economic problems that stem largely from their doctrinaire Marxism, the nations of the Soviet bloc are turning to many capitalistic practices that they once roundly condemned. Last week in the pages of Pravda, Russia's . chief prophet of the "new" economics, Kharkov University Economist Evsey Liberman, renewed his campaign for adoption of the profit motive, calling for the creation of a new government agency...
...Marxism." By any name, it is spreading through the Soviet orbit and causing considerable ferment. Czech economists have openly attacked the Marxist economic system, and Czech President Antonin Novotny recently stressed the necessity of "material incentives" for the workers. Even more important for its potential effect on the Communist world, the new way of thinking has given encouragement to the long-suffering consumers of the Soviet bloc, who have begun to sound off loudly about the inefficiencies of a system that provides them with so few comforts...