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...sometimes capitalizes Important Nouns. That quirk is telling: Fukuyama takes the intellectual underpinnings and pretensions of political movements more seriously than almost any politician does. The perfect example is his treatment of communism. That doctrine long ago proved to be a recipe for the accumulation and consolidation of raw power by a conspiratorial elite, not a monument to the theories of Marx -- or, for that matter, of Hegel, whom Marx admired almost as much as Fukuyama does. In fact, the more successful avowed communists were in practice, the more cynical they were about the theory...
Perhaps the most compelling symbol of Camden's role as trash heap is the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority, which processes 55 million gallons of raw sewage each day. Camden's suburbs used to treat their own sewage, but several years ago they began shutting down their 46 treatment plants and pumping all the waste into Camden instead. Says William Tucker, a professor of psychology at Rutgers who has lived in Camden for 20 years: "The stink is enough to kill...
Third, is Senator Byrd's raw spread-the-wealth philosophy completely illegitimate? The Federal Government and government-related private enterprises have made metropolitan Washington one of the richest areas of the country. By contrast, West Virginia is the second poorest state, after Mississippi. The entire country's taxes support the government. Why shouldn't more of the country get a piece of it? As private businesses are discovering, the electronic revolution is making it less and less necessary for work to be centralized at headquarters. There's no reason the government shouldn't take more advantage of this trend...
Across the Continent, nationalist groups are peddling raw hatred...
...paratrooper who boasts of being born in a house with a dirt floor, and former communists. But whatever their appearance or origin, the far-right- wingers who are emerging across the European continent share an alarming attitude, if not exactly an ideology: a virulent nationalism expressed mainly as raw hatred of foreigners, particularly immigrants. They also share momentum: West and East, their influence is on the rise...