Human Beings Are Not Efficiently Designed For

N. S. Khrushchev Established His Supremacy In The U.s.s.r. After Post-stalinist Alarums And Excursions (1958-64). This Admirable Rough Diamond, A Believer In Reform And Peaceful Coexistence, Who Incidentally Emptied Stalin's Concentration Camps, Dominated The International Scene In The Next Few Years. He Was Also Perhaps The Only Peasant Boy Ever To Rule A Major State

It Seems That American Patriotism Measures Itself Against An Outcast Group. The Right Americans Are The Right Americans Because They're Not Like The Wrong Americans, Who Are Not Really Americans.

It Is One Of The Ironies Of This Strange Century That The Most Lasting Results Of The October Revolution, Whose Object Was The Global Overthrow Of Capitalism, Was To Save Its Antagonist, Both In War And In Peace - That Is To Say, By Providing It With The Incentive, Fear, To Reform Itself After The Second World War, And, By Establishing The Popularity Of Economic Planning, Furnishing It With Some Of The Procedures For Its Reform

Many Years Later, Another Marxian Rephrased This As The Choice Between Socialism And Barbarity. Which Of These Will Prevail Is A Question Which The Twenty-first Century Must Be Left To Answer.

The Greatest Cruelties Of Our Century Have Been The Impersonal Cruelties Of Remote Decision, Of System And Routine, Especially When They Could Be Justified As Regrettable Operational Necessity.