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Myths We Swear by. Gobbledygook of Politics
Crosser, Paul | August 25, 1956 issue

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The inability or unwillingness of analysts to probe for the reality beneath the word has permitted the American public to live in a world of illusion of which the oratory of the national conventions serves as a dramatic example. The illusions pervading American foreign policy are closely linked with those about the internal social forces supposedly supporting that policy. If any society can be said to be prevailingly middle-class in character, it is the American; even the labor movement here is not a labor movement in any strict sense, it is rather a middle-class movement in its social outlook and economic aspirations.

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CONGRESSES & conventions; INTERNATIONAL relations; ECONOMICS -- Sociological aspects; LABOR movement; SOCIAL movements; LABOR unions
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