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...more relieved to see an end to the hostilities than Machel, whose country paid dearly for its support of Robert Mugabe and his guerrilla army. Now, in what seemed a surprising turnabout for an avowed socialist, Machel has launched an all-out effort to get aid from the capitalist West for his wretchedly poor people...
...today be rejected by a committee seeking senior appointments in Afro-American Studies defies belief. That such rejection could today revolve around Professor Genovese's use of some Marxist analytical methods (though quite subdued if not invisible in his Bancroft Prize book, Roll, Jordan, Roll) and his interest in Socialist politics also defies belief. That this petty and obscene resort to McCarthyite use of ideological criteria for faculty appointments at Harvard, hardly a week after President Derek C. Bok issued his courageous and cogent memorandum denouncing such McCarthyite behavior in our universities, was offered to the Harvard community without explanation...
Bitterness between the French and Italian Communists has flared openly at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where Marchais has accused Italy's Communist deputies of lining up with "reactionaries" against him. That thrust was aimed at Berlinguer's determined recent campaign to seek ties with the Socialist and other moderate parties of Europe. Berlinguer has held summit-like meetings with French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand and with Willy Brandt, chairman of the West German Social Democratic Party. Says Italian Communist Policymaker Sergio Segre, a deputy at Strasbourg: "We sometimes find ourselves voting on the same side...
...private initiative have achieved the most impressive economic gains. Take the cases of neighboring African countries that have similar peoples, natural resources and other conditions: free-enterprising Kenya has surged, whereas Tanzania's command economy has slumped; the Ivory Coast is capitalist and prosperous, while neighboring Guinea is socialist and impoverished...
...system does not rest on its output of cars or cosmetics. Capitalism's fundamental rationale is that it permits and promotes freedom by enhancing the rights of the individual and limiting the power of the state. While some capitalist countries are not democracies, no Communist or totally socialist economy has remained a democracy for long. And every democracy practices some version of capitalism. The reason is clear: political freedom is impossible without economic freedom. As the British poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc noted, "The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself...