Who Owns Boardwalk? While the impact of the Pentagon papers continues to reverberate in the U.S., a Marxist explanation comes from the Soviet magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta. In the Russian view, the secret study was published because three factions of monopolists were warring among themselves.
According to Gazeta, the three factions are: 1) makers of consumer and civilian goods, 2) suppliers of military goods not used in the Viet Nam War, and 3) military-industrial manufacturers whose goods are used in the war. As the Soviets see it, the civilian-sector monopolists and...
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