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There are non-Marxian socialists, but all owe some debt to Karl Marx, who framed the classic socialist indictment of capitalism, accusing it of turning labor into a commodity and thus exploiting and dehumanizing workers while it enriches bourgeois owners. Most important, perhaps, was Marx's claim that he had discovered certain "scientific" laws of history. By creating an increasingly numerous and impoverished working class, goes his familiar argument, capitalism produced the very forces that one day would destroy it in an Apocalypse of violent revolution. This confident prediction, which for more than a century inspired nearly all socialists with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Socialism: Trials and Errors | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...equally unsparing of Pasternak's wife Zinaida, who died in 1966. But she does cite some of Pasternak's letters to third parties that are full of praise for Zinaida: "I owe my life to her," the writer declared after a long illness. At times, Ivinskaya tends to confuse art and life. She often asserts that particular lines in Pasternak's work refer specifically to her. In his overwhelmingly expressive portrait of Lara, Pasternak offered no other physical description of his heroine than a mention of "strong, white, woman's arms." Ivinskaya would have been well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Other Lara | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Other families are falling behind on their bills. Richard McClur, 23, and his wife Pamela, 22, owe two months' rent-a total of about $200-on their four-room cabin. They have made no payments since November on their car, speedboat and motorcycle. They feed themselves and their four-month-old daughter on $138 a month in food stamps, supplemented by pork from hogs raised by Pamela's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: District 17 Hangs Tough | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...party. You've got to consider that party organizations in many states are decrepit today. The party can't help you with money or even technical advice. So you build your own organization, and if it's good, you get elected. We don't owe leadership anything. And we're not afraid of it. Many of us were not even our party's choice in the primary campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More Difficult to Govern | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...will be reborn as a "religious" skin magazine, he added, and his multimilliondollar, 400-employee empire of magazines and sex products may be turned into a nonprofit religious foundation. As Flynt told a Pentecostal congregation in Houston, where he had gone for the National Women's Conference: "I owe every woman in America an apology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I'll Be a Hustler for the Lord' | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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