Word: utopians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provides no radical response to pressing social problems. He advocates a decentralized, grass-roots reform of labor, corporations and government relationships. Muller outlines a program of cooperation between these economic actors that would eradicate the misallocation of resources, stemming from interest group haggling. His idea is intriguing, if utopian, but it still fails to address the issue of those who are represented neither by corporation, bureaucracy or union. Muller's array of strategic planning and targeting might possibly succeed in reversing declining productivity rates and other inflationary trends. But measures based on the corporate sector, as most...
...Democrats usually pride themselves on being the party of vision while denouncing the Republicans for their lack of imagination. In a curious reversal, Carter compared the Democrats' earthy realism to the Republicans' Utopian dreams of a world of "good guys and bad guys, where some politicians shoot first and ask questions later." This was a forecast, no doubt, of the kind of attack that will be launched against Reagan during the campaign. Reagan, said Carter, suggested blockading Cuba after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, while opposing the President's grain embargo. Scoffed Carter: "He doesn't seem...
...Stevens has charisma, he also has an unusual outside sponsor in Michael Oliver, 51, an American real estate developer, coin dealer and fervent antiCommunist. In the mid-'70s, as the leader of a group called the Phoenix Foundation, Oliver tried-and failed-to build a Utopian, tax-free haven for free enterprise on Abaco, in the Bahamas. Over the past decade, Oliver estimates, he has spent $130,000 on air fares, radios, even flags, in support of Stevens' secession movement...
Collectivist systems have failed to achieve their professed ideals. Pure Communist societies, from 19th century Utopian communities like New Harmony, in Indiana, to the hippie communes of the late 1960s, have struggled with the reality of individual self-interest. Sixty years of Soviet efforts to make workers more productive and innovative through slogans, medals, bonuses and threats have not overcome the basic problems of the U.S.S.R.'s inefficient agriculture and erratic industry. Bertolt Brecht, the Marxist German dramatist, said sardonically after the 1953 workers' riots in East Berlin that in view of the system's problems with its subjects...
With the rise of "prosumerism" and more interesting work, Toffler reports, a "personality of the future will be born." This 11-page discussion ends on a cheery note. "We shall create not a utopian man or woman who towers over the people of the past...but merely, and proudly, one hopes, a race--and a civilization--that deserves to be called human." These new human beings, in turn, will engage increasingly in minority politics, necessitating a change in the Constitution, which Toffler chummily outlines in a letter addressed to "The Founding Parents." The new race will get more...