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...ammunition factories, offering bonuses for increased production and transferring those who did not perform. By 1991 the army had passed along its experience to 100 civilian industries. Party sources say Raul's military advisers are looking beyond quick fixes and studying a complete overhaul of the socialist system. "If you're going to implement changes, one of the safer ways to do this is to use the armed forces so you can have a modicum of control," says Phyllis Greene Walker, a research associate who follows the Cuban military for the University of Miami's North-South Center in Washington...
While we are familiar with the staff's antiquated notion of "progressivity," we cannot support their socialist logic...
...There's a tendency for liberals to pursue more moderate policies," says Joshua A. Feltman '95, president of Perspective. He says Bill Clinton's crusade for universal health care is an example of seeking socialist goals through moderate means...
Feltman might be referring to the views of people like G. Brent McGuire '95, a senior council member of the conservative magazine Peninsula. "Socialist ideas are very pervasive at Harvard, but they're not called that by the socialist," he says. "It's a play on words, but the ideas are as socialist as ever. [These ideas] are very dangerous because Harvard is so respected...
...free markets and heaping scorn on the evils of clumsy, intrusive Big Government. He takes the position that despite the whining of enviros, people throughout the world have never been better off and that doomsayers who exaggerate the threat of ecological collapse are motivated by self-interest and a socialist agenda. In essence, he is offering the Wall Street Journal editorial page with a laugh track...