Word: socialist
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Carol Evans, running as a member of the Socialist Workers Party, has all the right qualifications that a left-wing candidate should have: She was up to her neck in the anti-war movement; she was a founding coordinator of the Committee to Defend Abortion Rights, which supported Kenneth Edelin; she has long been involved in the struggle to desegregate Boston schools...
...crack in France's leftist alliance has turned into a chasm. Last week the Communists announced that in the next few months they would hold 25,000 mass meetings?at a cost of $2 million ?to "explain" the sins of the Socialist Party to French voters. Abandoning their earlier strategy of silence about the split, the Socialists are busy turning out books and pamphlets defending their position. Both sides refuse to compromise on the contentious issue of how much of French industry should be nationalized under the common program of a leftist government (TIME, Oct. 10). Declared Socialist Leader...
...leaders, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Jacques Chirac, the Gaullist mayor of Paris. Until mid-September virtually every public opinion poll in France indicated that the leftist alliance would win a majority of the seats in the March 1978 elections. But according to a study by the pro-Socialist weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, the Giscard-Chi-rac coalition would win 246 National Assembly seats to 241 for the Socialists and Communists if elections were held today...
Chirac has carried on with his aggressive anti-left crusade, charging that the Communists and Socialists were indistinguishable "collectivists." For the moment, he seems to be the big loser in the leftist split. Concedes one of his deputies: "We've been brandishing the Socialist-Communist specter. Now that's not credible any more. We're revising our strategy." Chirac is also seeking to change his image as a hard-lining right-winger. He is barnstorming around France three days a week until the elections, trying to convince voters that he really favors progressive economic and social change...
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw's bitter, biting parody of this social philanthropy, exposes its futile results. Shaw, a leading Fabian socialist of his day, believed that it was not the workers but the middle class that needed to be changed, not suddenly but through a "gradual" permeation of socialist ideas and institutions in their capitalist midsts. His dubious hero in Pygmalion is exactly the kind of man who would not be receptive to tactics such as these: a leading London phoneticist determined to translate a flower girl into a "duchess" so effectively that, he wagers, no one will be able...