payments difficulties for which the ruling classes can think of no remedy other than bringing -in the IMF and the multinationals—all these have destroyed the illusions introduced and fostered byNehruite ideology that a combination of the so-called "mixed economy" and bourgeois democracy represented a viable and stable alternative, the best of •ill possible worlds.
Tn this conjuncture of deepening crisis where the beliefs, -ideas and illusions of yesterday arc becoming obsolete and moribund today, a plelhora of new theories, new beliefs and new illusions is inevitably emerging to fill the void. A radical Journal today must not only examine in
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