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...third attitude toward the new order, revolution. The liberals, eyes on the future, tended to be insensitive to the suffering, material and psychological, caused by the march of the new order. Marx was not. He believed, incorrectly, as it turned out, that the material condition of the workers must worsen as capitalism developed. But his observations about psychological "alienation" in a changing society have proved much more durable...
...Anglo-Saxon tradition of property rights. The fact that mass arrests are not always feasible in chaotic conditions is ignored. The fact that indiscriminate shooting in a few of the riots, particularly Newark and Detroit, killed innocent citizens is forgotten, and the fact that police gunfire can prolong and worsen the initial disturbance is often overlooked...
Since attempts to impose toilet discipline often worsen emotional problems in psychotic children, Bettelheim has removed all rules about bodily elimination. Elimination any time, anywhere, is preferred to withholding or self-inflicted constipation. If a child hits, kicks or bites, he is not fought or punished but is pacified; later his therapists seek the reasons why. Argues Bettelheim: "A spanking achieves a short-range goal, but it has a price tag-degradation and anger -that I am not willing to pay. My task is to build up self-respect. And I believe people do the right thing not because they...
...have enough. Today the world has more capital funds for investment than ever be fore. Yet there is disturbing evidence that capital is not being created fast enough to meet the rising volume of legitimate needs. Capital is scarce and costly almost every where, and the global shortage will worsen unless two basic remedial steps are taken. First, ways must be found to develop more funds. Second, the "flow" or distribution of capital has to be sped up and improved...
...programs among the old-line departments. Unless the administration accedes, Rep. Goodell (R.N.Y) recently warned, they "may well kill off the whole thing." OEO has failed in these first three years to perform many of its most important tasks, but sacrificing the program to the Departments will only worsen the situation. HEW will be no more successful in coordinating the activities of other Departments and may not even feel the responsibility to do so. Eliminating OEO, officials lament, will mean the end of a period of "trying, testing, and learning...