Word: paradoxical
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Harrington's analysis contains an important and troubling paradox. He consistently argues that America's problems are structural, but he rejects as politically impossible radical structural changes such as a complete overthrow of capitalism. He doesn't explain how he can accomplish the reforms he proposes--direct challenges to capitalist assumptions--without changing the capitalist system. As the example of the Allende government in Chile indicates, democratically-elected socialist governments may have to combat a lack of business confidence or outright business sabotage. As head of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), Harrington is committed to peaceful change and socialist...
Chassin added, however, that Bok presented a paradox. "These kinds of reforms take time, and with only four years, students will not be around to enjoy the benefits of their efforts," Chassin said
...turns out to be more grateful and more malleable than she is able to show. At one of those horrendous self-criticism sessions that were a feature of institutional life under Stalinism, little Angi Vera rises to denounce herself for her romantic weakness, which has the effect-another paradox here-of ending her lover's party career and enhancing her own. The film is written and directed with a kind of deadpan subtlety (perhaps the only way it could be done in a country that is, after all, Communist). It is impossible to say if careerist calculation enters into...
...paradox in Carter's failures is that the voters keep turning out to support his candidacy for reelection. It is partly the same patriotic tendency that caused John Kennedy's poll ratings to rise after the debacle at the Bay of Pigs. But there are signs that Carter's extended Indian summer may be turning colder. In the wake of the U.N. uproar, Senator Ted Kennedy began attacking Carter forcefully on the issue; the dismay of pro-Israeli voters could become significant in the two big primaries just coming up: Illinois and New York...
...government had helped destroy freedom in Chile; he still subscribers to the 19th-century belief that a free market in the economic and political realms are interdependent. "The restoration of political freedom is impossible without a restoration of economic health," he wrote (Wall Street Journal, December 10, 1976). The paradox is that Harberger promulgated with missionary zeal his belief in the free economic market in a place where the free marketplace of ideas had been decimated...