Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown Truman Doctrine would be the U.S.'s constructive answer to the Communist Party, and not merely a hit-or-miss substitute for UNRRA. The Communists were already busy telling the world that the Truman Doctrine meant imperialism and slavery. Even some French non-Communists thought that the Socialist dirigisme-the "directed economy"-would be lost by listening to advice from the U.S. (see cut). In Britain a large and vocal bloc in the British Labor Party urged Ernest Bevin to steer clear of dependence on the U.S. (see below...
...Industrial Charter opposed Socialist nationalization in principle, but was cagily diffident when it came down to cases. It agreed that coal and the Bank of England should remain nationalized; only on iron and steel was it flatly opposed to Government ownership. On controls, the main Tory target for many months, it was surprisingly cautious: "Some controls will have to be continued until abundance overtakes scarcity...
...when Premier Thomas C. Douglas' CCF regime came to power, the province's wheat farmers were sitting pretty, netting $20.03 an acre on wheat, and rapidly reducing their debts. But the socialist CCF figured that this was too good to last. It gave the farmers drought insurance by passing a law that no payment on the principal of a farm mortgage need be made in any year when the average yield from wheat acreage fell below $6; in addition, at least 4% must be written off the principal-at the mortgagee's expense. But interest would still...
...political life from 1818 to 1883. Here is Marx the boy taken to a church in Trier, in the recently Prussianized Rhineland, and baptized a Lutheran. His father, the first lawyer in an interminable line of distinguished rabbis, admired Prussia and its official religion. Here is Marx the future socialist, unsocially shunning his school fellows while his mental acrobatics charm Ludwig von Westphalen, a much older man of a much higher social position. Marx later repaid Westphalen for this early interest by marrying his daughter, Jenny, against the wishes of her family. And here is Marx the frustrated poet, wasting...
...rabbinical thinker whose pyramids of abstract logic were brilliant, but had nothing to do with facts; 2) a vicious egomaniac determined to ruin any man or group that he could not dominate; 3) a political seer whose prognostications were almost always wrong; 4) a self-styled "scientific" socialist whose science was about as scientific as astrology; 5) an economist whose economic knowledge was perfunctory and puerile. Marx's mind was undoubtedly diabolic (history is studded with malign political geniuses). But it is no help in understanding or combating Marxism to deny its author's perverse brilliance...