Street est-elle marx-— iste?"
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Between the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan, the streets are like bottomless pits out of which truth at times manages to emerge far enough to show the tip of his nose. Yesterday the rumor of a peace overture from North Vietnam, even mediation by India, un- © leashed minor panic in Wall Street and industrial stocks fell at once.
It. must be understood that a country devoting more than half its colossal budget to war feels a little terror at the idea of seeing this powerful economic motor slowing down or stopping. Where to reinvest the capital and, secondarily, where to find gobs for all the workers? —
Look at France which has‘ never been. able to solve the. small problem of excess vineyards and sugar beets. Replace the beets with bombs, the wine with blood, and the situation is hopeless.
In the final analysis there is nothing more Marxist than a certain capitalist country. With extraordinary firmness and unequalled success it insists on resembling as exactly as possible the: rather unflattering portrait which was drawn just a hundred years ago by the old revolutionary theoretician.
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