Word: socialistic
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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...
...argued that the University should subsidize the PIRG in the interests of encouraging the free exchange of ideas, then it would be wrong to stop at just one partisan group. What about the Harvard Republicans, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, the Spartacus Youth League? The University should on this principle add $100 to students' term bills and distribute the proceeds to whoever has a cause to promote...
...branches of the government to them, how does he explain the presence of Arab members in Israeli Labour Party and in that party's Central Committee, as well as in the Israeli Parliament? On the other hand could anyone tell me the number of Jews in the Egyptian Arab-Socialist Union, or in the Syrian or Iraqi Ba'ath Party, or perhaps in the Jordanian Parliament? But to digress to a discussion of the double standard of morality where Israel is concerned is not my aim here...
...leader of France's largest communist union said yesterday he expects the rift between the French Communist and Socialist parties to disappear before France's general election in March...
...Communist and Socialist parties would unite before March, the left would win the upcoming elections, Moynad said, adding that a continued division between the two parties would probably mean a victory for the right...