Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground by granting him his sweeping generalization of the classless society. But it is impossible to concede to him that such a society is so easy of attainment. Mr. Conant must be over-impressed with the importance of his profession if he believes that education is a force powerful enough to go far in annihilating caste barriers. It seems necessary--even if it is trite--to remind him that equality of ability and equality of training do not mean equality of opportunity. Economic power still continues to be a decisive factor in the determination of position...
Before social mobility could be attained it would be necessary to break the back of economic power. It would be necessary for the government to adopt extreme measures such as completely confiscatory inheritance taxes. It is true that Mr. Conant briefly takes cognizance of these problems, but he vastly under-rates them. The fact remains that it is impossible automatically to redistribute power and privilege at the end of each generation unless there is a simultaneous radical redistribution of wealth...
These Britons want to learn to fly, for they want to beat Adolf Hitler, and they respect the air power he can call up. But Britons encounter two insurmountable difficulties in their learning: the sun shines over Great Britain only one hour in every three; the island is too small and crowded for extended training flights...
Theory. The failures of Marxism in practice argue fallacies in theory. The first of these, according to Parkes, is the idea that the working class alone can, or will, seize political power. The modern working class and the capitalist class are not independent as were the French bourgeoisie and aristocracy before the French Revolution; they are interdependent parts of the same economic organism...
...free market demands a constant flow of purchasing power, and as the fatal kink in that flow under modern capitalism is unearned income derived from fixed interest rates, the kink should be straightened by a reduction-ultimately an extinction-of dividends and interest. Holdings of public institutions should be excepted. The trick would be turned gradually by cutting down on the rights of inheritance. In the end, business men would do their borrowing entirely from the government...