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...subsequent series of revolutions that shaped the modern world show an instructive pattern of contrast. The French Revolution-like the French themselves-was wildly impatient. Utopia was to be now. built on the flaming brain of Reason and the decapitated corpses of the misguided opposition. The Russian Revolution was another Utopia supposed to rise from blood and blueprints, though it looked to a longer time and more corpses before the socialist Eden would be achieved, and counseled strategic patience in following the drive of history...
Soviet economic plans usually seem more like daydreams than serious forecasts of intended achievement. The classic was Nikita Khrushchev's seven-year plan (1959-65), which promised to make Russia a Communist Utopia by 1970, complete with the world's highest standard of living and largest industrial production. Moscow's new leaders are more realistic. Last week Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin unveiled a new five-year plan that takes up where Khrushchev's seven-year plan leaves off. Gone was the old bombast, the exuberance, the phony dreams. And gone-for once-was the promise...
...sure, Utopia has not arrived. The sores of segregation and poverty still fester in many parts of the U.S. despite the real gains brought by such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and the poverty program. The big cities are in need of imaginative renewal if they are to remain livable. There are chinks in the President's all-embracing and long-enduring consensus that could widen into cracks before year's end. Under prodding to hold the line on prices, the business community is growing restless and resentful...
...suggest that girls be fitted with IUD now in January 1966," Latham said last night, "but I look forward after its perfection to a utopia of no unwanted births...
Ford Motors as Baal. The errors that Niebuhr confesses in this book of "my old age" are mostly errors of social and political philosophy. He was never a Communist sympathizer. He was always critical of an ideology that promised to build Utopia by destroying human freedom. Nevertheless, he was strongly influenced by Marx, and believed in the capacity of socialism to realize more fully than any other political system the Christian ideals of social justice and equality...