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Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery.(Review)
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Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. By John Mueller. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 335p. $29.95.
Mueller wants us to ask less of democracy than some of its keener advocates have promised; to value capitalism, particularly as a moralizing force, more highly than it has generally been valued; and overall to accept that the two together provide pretty much all we might need. When the two coincide, we are in Ralph's pretty good grocery, Garrison Keillor's fictitious Lake Wobegon store, where, if you cannot get it, you can probably ...
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The return of Feliks Dzerzhinsky.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...40-foot bronze statue of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, the Polish-born revolutionary...Communists propose to bring back Dzerzhinsky's statue to its former place...executed by order of "Iron Feliks," as he was admiringly called...
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Iron Feliks' fall: Toppling an icon of the high priest of Soviet terror
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...demise of the Bolshevik era than pulling down the great bronze statue of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky in the square that bears his name. Dzerzhinsky -- "Iron Feliks" -- was the founder of the feared Cheka, Lenin's secret police, which...
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