On whose side is history? (capitalism versus communism)

National Review | August 23, 1985| | Copyright

TO ASK, in these times, the question "On whose side is history?" is to risk sliding into politics--a discussion of capitalism versus Communism. Nikita Khrushchev's warning to Americans ("We will bury you") was a particularly crude answer to this question in political terms, but it was also a statement of the fundamental Marxist dogma according to which history is merely the offspring of the tools of production. History--that is, final victory--will therefore be on the side of those possessing the greatest competency in forging the tools best suited to produce the best ...

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