Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guard stands for the kind of entrenched-organization Republicanism that gathers strength and influence from the congressional seniority system. It is backed by the influence of articulate, conservative businessmen and business organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (TIME, May 13). It mistrusts most of the New Deal social legislation and the Eisenhower extensions and additions to it; e.g., it opposes the whole theory of federally supported school construction and health reinsurance as part of the pattern of "creeping socialism." Its old inner rumblings of isolationism make foreign aid especially suspect. The Old Guard is the party of Taft...
...Eisenhower Republicans state their case against the Old Guard in shorter and simpler terms. They believe that the social legislation of the New Deal is a fact of U.S. history, that social security, for instance, is as basic to the national fabric as free enterprise. They see gradually expanding Federal Government as the price of rapidly expanding national growth, and foreign aid as the price of international leadership. In addition to the top administrative officials of Government and a sturdy bloc in Congress, Eisenhower Republicanism includes the major elected Republicans who are closest to the voters: the 19 G.O.P. governors...
There is no specific law against prostitution in the Soviet Union or in the Soviet satellite countries, because the founders of Soviet socialism, Marx, Engels and Lenin, held that prostitution was a capitalist evil which simply could not exist in their "new system of social justice...
Lastik also met "society women whose husbands earned quite decent salaries, but who increased their income through prostitution." His conclusion: the prevalence of prostitution is not, as Engels maintained, due solely to social misery, but quite as much to socialist "blindness and falsehood...
Last week the Gomulka government established a new first in satellite propaganda: by releasing the long-suppressed antiprostitution film Paragraph Zero, it began a serious campaign to end past blindness and falsehood. But this was only a beginning. Advised Social Analyst Lastik: "We should concern ourselves with the moral state of our public...