Forum, Aug. 4, 1975

To the Editors:

As long as a dog has a bone, capitalism [July 14] will survive.

Lincoln K. Davis South Easton, Mass.

Capitalism has survived Nixon, Hitler, Marx. What more could one ask?

Charles Arndt Minneapolis

It is not, "Can Capitalism Survive," but can the consumer survive?

David Zap Bowie, Md.

There is no other conclusion. Capitalism appeals to those with a winner's instinct and socialism to the losers.

Robert E. Herrmann Los Angeles

It is a hopeful portent that TIME poses the issue of capitalism's survival and treats it seriously. But the alternatives of the future are not, as TIME thinks, a flawed but viable bumbling through as against...

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