“Isms” defined
Sir, —One recalls reading the "Isms” defined, sent in by “Bully for Us,” some 20odd years ago in the “Reader’s Digest” as a contribution to the psychological cold war against communism of the McCarthy era. Its intention was humorous but hardly informative (the definitions are as inaccurate as they can be). Its targets were the minds of the non-capitalists of capitalism, its purpose to sustain in them their euphoric satisfaction with their lot. The true humour of the definitions, unconsciously ironic, is that Fascism, Nazism and the New Deal were, in their respective national milieus—ltaly, Germany and the United States —the various solutions attempted in the crisis of the world-wide collapse of capitalism of the 1930 s to rescue it from its state of economic paralysis. The definition of capitalism offered by “Bully for Us” is of a capitalism that never existed anywhere on this planet.—Yours, etc., M.C.H. January 8, 1972.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32810, 10 January 1972, Page 10
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