He delivered the inaugural Oscar Mendelsohn lecture in 1971 at Monash University and advocated policies for Australia such as population control, prevention of war, long-term plans for the management of the environment and natural resources, Aboriginal land rights, socialism, recycling, advertising bans on socially harmful products, and more regulation of the environment.
Along the way, he teases out the many views of an artistic and bohemian generation that endlessly discussed the future of women's rights, socialism, religion and sexual liberation.The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia.
To that end I wish someone had asked the people in this program about Europe, Ellis Island, cars, the Roaring Twenties, cocaine, the Depression, the Dust Bowl, ghettos, the war, the New Deal, polio, civil rights, socialism, washing machines, swimming pools, the Kennedy assassination, the lunar landing.
Where liberal democracy focuses on equal rights and opportunities for individuals to do what they want, short of imposing on others' rights, socialism focuses on harnessing the productivity of all for the benefit of all, a collectivist perspective.
It is enough to give rise to the equally contradictory criticisms he endures, from longtime enemies on the right crying socialism and from disillusioned supporters on the left who lament what they see as Mr. Obama's pro-business bias.
Conservatives frame economics as if there were only two legitimate philosophies: conservatism on the right and socialism on the left.
He should only look at his great grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, who articulated his views on so many things, from women's rights to socialism to nation building.
Similar divisions threatened women's rights and socialism, and they are present at Occupy Boston as well: one prayer service conducted in the spirituality tent was interrupted by another activist who implied they'd be siding with the police if they didn't immediately join in civil disobedience.
"That's champagne socialism, right there, and no mistake".
He flirted with the political right, before embracing socialism with zeal, and then austerity and liberalisation with reluctance.
