Word: collectivist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fairly typical member of Le Centre des Jeunes Patrons (Center of Young Employers), which is trying to build a brighter future for free enterprise in France. The Young Employers are against the predatory capitalism of the past, but they also want to keep France from sliding into the collectivist pitfall. Their answer to the welfare state is to look after their workers' welfare themselves. Their attitude, they say, is partly moral, partly selfish...
Farmers the world over tend to be conservative, or at least anti-collectivist, and French farm people more so than most. Yet when the French Communist Party began to lose votes in the cities, some months ago, its strength in the rural areas was still rising. Last week TIME Correspondent André Laguerre examined a rural area to see how the Communists were faring on the eve of next Sunday's local elections. He cabled...
...Spirit. At first the answer seemed to be yes. Outgoing President Robert R. Wason cried that the big trouble was that a "collectivist government" had sold out to labor. In quaking anger, Bob Wason shouted: "The President lets the public freeze while his guts quiver...
...will disagree that the Russian Revolution "inaugurated the era of collectivism, the most frightening, powerful and misunderstood phenomenon of the 20th Century." Author Scott believes that socialism is inevitable (" . . . if the Soviet Union, by some miracle, were to fall tomorrow into the Arctic Sea, the collectivist revolution . . . would not stop"), and that capitalism, as now practiced in the U.S., must soon go the way of the dinosaurs...
...October Revolution could not dampen. Harassed by almost incredible poverty after her husband's death (when Mitya was 16), she brought up her brood of three children with the tenacity of a she-wolf, worked her gnarled fingers to the bone to give them an unusual education despite collectivist hell & high water...