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...democratic socialists ardently hope that more students will begin to draw the lessons of the sixties. Instead, the current period of ritualistic "Leftism" (including the sixties' sickness of elitism, pro-Communism, contempt for working people, etc.) combined with cynicism is an indication that many people have remembered a lot from the heyday of the student movement, but learned nothing...
...just because they all felt they'd enjoy singing together. The music reminds me of the scene at the end of Kubrick's Paths of Glory, where the doomed French soldiers chime in with a German girl's singing, or Matisse's dancing nudes, or a vision of primitive communism, or Melville's description of the Fiddler...
Born in St. Petersburg in 1906, Leontief studied at the University of Leningrad before his family fled Communism. He earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Berlin, and in 1931 joined the faculty at Harvard. Among his students in 1935 was Paul Samuelson, the M.I.T. professor who won the second Nobel economics prize in 1970. Besides Leontief and Samuelson, Harvard's Simon Kuznets-also a Russian émigré-won the award in 1971, and Harvard's Kenneth J. Arrow shared it in 1972. Cracked Leontief: "Do you think there should be an antitrust investigation...
...overthrow of Salvador Allende's Marxist government was not a defeat for democracy, but a victory over Communism...
Article Four is more than enforced. Under a number of decree-laws, issued by the executive branch of the Saigon government and approved, sometimes under heavy pressure, by the legislature, "persons, parties, leagues, and associations" that aim directly or indirectly at "practicing communism or pro-communist neutralism" are outlawed. "Pro-communist neutralism" is defined as "propaganda for and incitement of neutralism...