Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action's other supporters. It's probably a lot of not-so-well-off teachers, students, and other white-collar workers, and some younger professional people--a Village Voice readership instead of a New York magazine one, the kind of people who'd have been in the radical, non-socialist or moderately socialist wing of a 1930s Popular Front. Most of the old-time Democrats don't think much of these people, but from Richard Daley on down they evidently feel that along with blacks and women they're needed to capture elections, and maybe that they're easily cajoled...
Lippmann started his public career as president of Harvard's Socialist Club and he finished it by giving qualified support to Richard Nixon; at first glance, it looks as though there were contradictions in the development of his thinking. But unlike most of those one-time socialists who wound up celebrating the American consensus, Lippmann suffered no traumatic disillustionment, no sudden or gradual discovery that led him to discard his earlier views. Right from the beginning, his hopes centered not on revolutionary uproar or change, not on the tumult and intrigue of politics, but on solutions quietly worked...
This adamant nationalism and its obverse side of virulent anti-Communism are two pillars of Heitmann's description of the military's economic plans. At first the jargon seems to be that of a socialist. "Under the new constitution, enterprises will have a social role, and they will have to give workers participation in profits. Workers will also have a voice in management." "Workers are getting titles of property. Sixty per cent of the land now belongs to farm workers." "The policy of the government is that all strategic materials--oil, coal, copper--are going to be managed...
...future "only if necessary." Foreign companies seized by Allende have either been returned or their former owners have been compensated. And later, in his speech, the ambassador tells his audience that the junta will retain power "as long as it takes to reorganize the country from a socialist system to a capitalist system." Elections can take place only after the "free market system" is reinstated...
While an undergraduate, Lippmann helped found and became president of the Harvard Socialist Club, a large organization in the days of political turmoil prior to the First World...