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...Great Leap Forward was hailed as a short cut to Communism -and a slap at Moscow. Khrushchev warned that it could not be done. After a few months the experiment indeed collapsed. Gloating over the failure, Khrushchev told visiting Hubert Humphrey that Mao's idea had been foolishly "Utopian...
...hearings, the quality of discussion was curiously uneven. It was clear, for example, that the radical Negro civil rights lawyer, Conrad Lynn, was eager to discuss his view that Negroes in America should arm themselves in self-defense, and to explain why Cuba's Inter-racial society might seem utopian to Americans who had suffered discrimination all their lives...
...said a group experimental in Mexico last summer had made him" less cynical about the possibility of a utopian society," such as the one described by Aldous Huxley in island. The Mexican experience, he related, prompted the creation of the Newton Center headquarters, where several unrelated persons are now living as a family unit. "This is not a blood-related family," he said, "it is like a family...
...Consequently, he was always contradicting himself without noticing it. He oscillated between extreme positions, never coming to rest at a practical one. Before the Civil War, he was an all-out pacifist; once it began, he was hell-bent on the destruction of the South. At a time when Utopian nostrums were the fad, Garrison fell for them all: religious perfectionism, phrenology, Graham bread (as a cure for neuroses), water cures, spiritualism...
...problems are, as Karl Popper put it, of 'piecemeal technology,' of the prosaic, yet necessary questions, of school costs, municipal services, the urban sprawl, and the like, bravura radicalism simply becomes a hollow shell." And Schlesinger in New Statesman writes "Apart from civil rights, the contribution of the utopian Left to the discussion of domestic issues has been unimpressive...