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...These are the days when you fantasize about being an artist (even Munch and Poe wanted to tell it to somebody) or dream about Mitterand, solidarity and the Spanish Civil War. Other days you end up tipping ten percent and thinking about law school in a fit of unmollified greed. These are the days when you're no sucker. Us against Them is really Us against Us. If there were honest-to-God Capitalists and honest-to-God Communists out there, things would be a hell of a lot easier. No one would have a lousy nights sleep...
...true colors--the true greed for money and control--of our President and his corporate sponsors shows more clearly each day. Yes, a lot of union members were suckered into voting for Reagan, but now there is abundant proof to convice them of their error. With his televised threats, Reagan has laid down the challenge, and from it labor must not shink...
...make them honorable duels. Instead of trying to win on issues like the tax cut, when it would have been a win in name only, they should have tried to demarcate a liberal alternative as free as possible of concessions to big oil, big business, and big political greed...
...violence of the pulp magazines. Typical Hammett detectives, like the Continental op and Sam Spade, got their hands dirty but kept their minds alert. They often found that those who had hired them were criminal or corrupt; they prowled, lonely paladins of justice, through stark landscapes of betrayal and greed. Hammett's stories paid the rent. His novels, especially The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Glass Key (1931), brought him an international reputation...
...against whom Galbraith has labored long, is based on the Smithean premise that the cupidity of each man will contribute to the greater good of all. Now this assumption, as handy as it might be for the world's voracious strivers, presents a considerable affront to those who think greed is a bad thing, among whom, I suspect, is Galbraith. So while Adam Smith and his spirtual heirs, from Alfred Marshall to Milton Friedman to Arthur Laffer, contorted the concept of greed into a good thing, Galbraith said no; greed exists, and will ensure the production of privately produced goods...