Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election may not, however, mark the pursuit of the people's will in Portugal. For the major participating parties had to-agree to recognize the continued presence of the High Council of the Revolution for from three to five years and the "irrevocable" transformation of Portugal into a socialist society...
...With his socialist books no longer banned in Portugal, French Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, 69, felt encouraged enough to take a firsthand reading of the Portuguese revolution. During a 15-day visit to the country with his longtime friend, Author Simone de Beauvoir, 67, Sartre chatted with writers and students, toured a factory and dined in Lisbon's Red Barracks Canteen with the Light Artillery Regiment, most radical of Portugal's revolutionary forces. Despite his antimilitarism, Sartre seemed thoroughly reconciled to the Portuguese army, which, he said, "is not like any other" since it represents all classes...
...essentially that Keynesian policy prescriptions that are failing now. To the Leontiefs and the Galbraiths, this proves freedom is unworkable and we must change the economy again, to a centrally planned socialist economy. This intellectual bluff should be called, because there is no sound basis for this conclusion...
...question is whether we should try a more libertarian free market or a socialist centrally controlled economy. Seen against this background. Nozick's book is a powerful, unequivocal addition to the argument for the former. His position suggests the free market solution would not only be efficient, but also just...
...history of Zionism, is unaware that the moving element in the foundation of Zionism and the creation of a Jewish national community in Palestine was not Herzl but the poor Jews of Eastern Europe, living under the persecution of Czarist Russia. These Jews were for the most part socialist and their aim was to establish a commonweaath that oppressed nobody. They created the uniquely successful collective and cooperative colonies which became one of the most important institutions of the Jewish community, as well as a democratic state governed by socialists...