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...time to recognize this swelling chorus as the refrain of a fat and experience racket. When a group in any society makes coercive claims to subsidy upon others, it implicitly assumes an entitlement to the lives and property of other individuals. The claim does not differ in essence from the one slave-holders imposed on slaves in the Old South: the group demands that others live for its sake. Profession of special worth does not justify coercive intervention on behalf of any interest group, no matter how skillfully the group may portray its aims as in the "common interest...
...this book written? The effort would be eminently sensible for an unabashed conservative, but surely socialist Kelman could have found a better way to advance toward his goals. It is not necessary to approve of East Germany, or even refrain from criticizing it, to be a good socialist, but some sense of priorities is in order. To pillory the East Germans, Kelman goes through impressive political contortions: he embraces American consumerism, while ignoring the war in Vietnam, he mouths platitudes about freedom, while his government systematically murders a people trying to be free...
...that no one in the war has had a monopoly of anguish and that no one has a monopoly of insight." It is a recognition of the fact that in the future the U.S. will have to adopt a more modest posture before the complex processes of history, to refrain from trying to remake the world in its own image, to learn to live with evils that cannot be removed...
...preamble to the Washington-Hanoi draft agreement of last October, in which the U.S. reportedly acknowledged the "unity" of Viet Nam while extracting from the North the concession that the country was temporarily not unified. The U.S. is not likely to win a guarantee that Hanoi will refrain from using violence to impose its system on the South. But Washington seeks, at the least, an assurance that Hanoi will respect the DMZ as a temporary border between two sovereign halves of a divided country...
...increased technological, economic and cultural cooperation between East and West; and 3) establishment of a permanent organization to deal with European security problems. The NATO powers will accept this framework, but are determined to concentrate on specific details that will have practical effects, such as an agreement to refrain from sudden troop movements or unannounced military maneuvers near borders, and the possibility of allowing each bloc to station observers in the countries of the other...