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...bankrupt if he failed. Historically, the U.S. Government has often done much to strengthen those twin pillars of free enterprise, private ownership and unfettered competition. Americans have grown so accustomed to living under free enterprise that they rarely even think in terms of class struggles, expropriation, the proletariat or other concepts that mark national debate elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Future of Free Enterprise | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...more than merely getting drunk on weekends. As a matter of fact, the vivid proof of the growing well-being and prosperity of the average worker is attested to by the summer spectacle of our highways--choked with the vacation-bound cars of the "oppressed" American proletariat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORKING CLASS HEROES? | 10/2/1971 | See Source »

...Youth Romance Today" ("Jen ... what would you say if I told you ... I think ... I'm in love with you." "I would say ... you were full of shit." The ellipses are his.) which clings moistly to the top of the bestseller lists, bringing lumpen to the throats of the proletariat (because a baker's daughter can marry a banker's son, even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists are still back in the middle ages translating Greek. Then there's Yale law professor Charles A. Reich (all of whose students, the Times exclaims, call him "Charley"), who reports...

Author: By (this Article and Michael E. Kinsley, S | Title: The Greening of Yale | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...connivance in Latin American guerrilla movements, but, Karol argues through his fiercely anti-Stalinist perspective, Castro adopted the Russian model of development of the 1930's based on low consumption and high investment behind a centralized and vertical power structure operating in the name of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Karol indicates that, to justify this new position, Castro made several theoretical distortions, and abandoned his earlier anti-Stalinism and recognition that Cuba was not a proletarian revolution. Unfortunately Karol does not show why Fidel never adopted the Chinese model, one which he claims is more suited to Cuba. What...

Author: By Tom Crane, | Title: CUBA'S WOES Fidel's Sugar- Ups and Downs of Revolution | 6/4/1971 | See Source »

...campus, the reaction to the dearth of jobs ranges from nonchalance to panic to anger?an anger often directed at the colleges that trained the students to no seeming purpose. Some speak darkly about the creation of a new "intellectual proletariat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Graduates and Jobs: A Grave New World | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

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