Word: ownership
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...most Americans, Communism conjures up images of the rigid, bureaucratized economic systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Its main characteristics are state ownership of all enterprises, collectivized agriculture, strict government planning. Is this the vision offered by the Communist parties of Western Europe? To varying degrees, the answer is no. Western Europe's Communists say they want to create a sort of Eurocommunism that draws its inspiration from neither the Soviet Union nor China nor Yugoslavia. "None of the models existing in the world today apply to us," says José Maria González, economic spokesman...
Most critics link Pound's anti-Semitism with his economic concerns adopted from C.H. Douglas's Social Credit theories. He believed in government management of money (as opposed to either private banks or public ownership of the means of production), and in his attacks on banks he often atacked 'Jusury.' In 1935 he had agonized over his association of Jews with banks: "How long the whole Jewish people is to be a sacrificial goat for the usurer, I know not." But as time went on, as Pound got caught up in the rhetoric of Fascism, his antisemitism went beyond malevolent...
Most of the Fly Club members seem to feel the whole episode Sunday was prompted by what one member called "red rag journalism"--a series of articles in the Crimson discussing the ownership and use of the land. Later that afternoon, Thomas Whiteside '32, a Fly Club trustee, said the reporter who wrote those articles "must be a Communist--he thinks people should invade private property." Thomas E. Walsh Jr., the club's steward, interrupted a conversation I was having with a club member to thrown me off the Fly Club land, threatening to call the police if I didn...
...half an acre of land near the Carter peanut warehouse in Plains. Carter discovered, much to his dismay, that the investors were trying to turn a quick buck by selling the land as 1-sq.-in. "peanut farms" for $5 each, complete with red-white-and-blue certificates of ownership. One of his sisters, Gloria Carter Spann, bought the first of the several hundred little inches that have already been sold, and her husband has purchased 500 shares of stock in the land sales company...
...first in U.M.W. history-the board slashed $2 million, accusing Miller of deficit spending. Miller insists that expenditures will be covered by dues collections and investment income-and points out that the U.M.W. is one of the richest unions in the U.S. It has $85 million in assets, including ownership of the third largest bank in Washington...