Word: vargas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungarian-born Eugen Varga was a major prophet among Soviet economic seers. He undertook to make an analysis of the war's effect on the economy of capitalist countries. After patient study of the portents, he put his conclusions in a book which was not allowed circulation outside a close circle of party potentates...
...Varga's findings: 1) no economic reasons now exist for a struggle between Soviet socialism and Western capitalism; 2) there is no likelihood of a capitalist crisis before 1955; 3) capitalist states can, in times of emergency, control profits and regulate monopolies in the national interest; 4) in wartime, the workers' living standards in capitalist states rose 20%; 5) Russia's Eastern European satellites are a weak economic reed, comparatively unimportant to total European recovery...
Although all posters bearing pictures of sexy women, either photographs or drawings by such noted artists as Varga and Petty, were removed after lunch by John Cowles, Jr., Union Committee member in charge of Smoker elections, they were not long absent from the scene, and by suppertime the previous maximum had almost been attained...
...struggle between the two systems, the capitalist powers have three lines of strategy. They must: 1) try to turn the social-democratic parties and non-Communist trade unions into allies; 2) strengthen the Catholic and Protestant Churches and Islam; 3) encourage fascism "in a veiled form." The Catholic Church, Varga charges, is organizing a "Catholic International...
Renaissance of Fascism. Since fascism is the "political expression of the growing crisis of capitalism," look for its timely rebirth, Professor Varga warns. "At the present time in the capitalist countries there is undoubtedly taking place a definite rebirth of political reaction and fascism." Chief focus of the "renaissance of fascism": the U.S. and Britain. Reactionary forces in these countries are stepping up "an intensified campaign against the Soviet Union, striving to isolate her and organize an anti-Soviet bloc...