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...horrified by the Vietnam War and slowly moved farther to the Left. But he was also shocked when those same students began questioning economic theory as a whole. He had though economics was a trade, with tools that were value-free and effective on both capitalist and socialist problems. Suddenly, he was forced to step back and see neoclassical economics as a system--"a description of the world, an attempt to justify capitalism...
...Binh herself last week emphasized that North-South differences "in the economic and political field" will require "a certain period of time to realize reunification." Highly capitalistic and individualistic, the South will no doubt have to undergo some profound changes before it can be successfully assimilated into the socialist, collectivist society of the North. "The North fears the seductive life of the South, compared with the disciplined, austere, spartan life in the North," says one State Department Viet Nam specialist. "They do not want their people contaminated...
...following document, from the Czech Socialist opposition, was smuggled out of Czechoslovakia earlier this year. We feel it speaks for itself, and in view of the fact that today, May 9, is the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Prague by Soviet troops, we urge that telegrams be sent to the Czechoslovakian embassy in Washington, D.C., asking that Ivan Dejmal be granted amnesty...
...victims of the present regime in Czechoslovakia is Ivan Dejmal, 28. Repression against him started in early 1970 when he was arrested and charged with being a member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party. At that time, he was about to complete his studies at the Prague School of Agriculture...
...heart attack; in Paris. Wounded and captured at Verdun in 1917, the roly-poly, bespectacled Duclos, a baker's apprentice before the war, joined the party in 1920, working first as an agitator among soldiers and draftees, and later earned the reputation of a political wunderkind by defeating Socialist Leon Blum for the Assembly. An orthodox Stalinist, Duclos gained leverage in the Communist International, virtually directed the 1946 expulsion of onetime U.S. Party Boss Earl Browder for continuing his wartime policy of soft-pedaling the "class struggle." After the Nazis invaded Russia, he organized the French Communist resistance...