Word: self-interest
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...staff should not hesitate to call for Counter's dismissal because the staff is afraid of alienating certain ethnic groups. Those ethnic groups are wrong for coopting the Counter issue and using it for their own self-interest. Let them raise their legitimate complaints without linkage to supporting an anti-Semite...
...true that Western pressure could not have accomplished what it did if the the system had not been deeply flawed. Marxism-Leninism -- and socialism in general -- embodied the basic fallacy that people do their best work in a vast collective, rather than in free pursuit of their self-interest, and that government or bureaucrats can run an efficient, egalitarian economy...
...have immensely mitigated the harshness of early capitalism, have in fact transformed it beyond recognition; but we have still not solved its basic contradiction. This is not, as Marx thought, economic but psychological: on the one hand, capitalism requires the engine of self-interest -- or greed, if you will -- while on the other hand, society requires attention to the general interest -- the taming of greed. We are still pulled back and forth between these two poles...
...abscence of racially uniform passion in Choi's life is not replaced by any personal passion. That he chose to join a "slew of clubs and activities" merely to pad his Harvard application belies his self-interest and does not represent his race. It is this view of Asian-Americans lacking passion and independent thought that I find most repugnant and incorrect...
Where the Institute of Politics refuses to show sensitivity to the concerns of minority groups on campus, perhaps the Black Students Association will. If nothing else, enlightened self-interest should lead Hall and thoughtful members of the BSA to condemn all forms of prejudice of the race and ancestry of the speaker, and withdraw their offer to Leonard Jeffries. Jessica Yellin...