Abstract
We have before us a book by an American, Professor Shepard Clough, Basic Values of Western Civilization, New York, 1960. Before opening book, we guess that it will deal primarily with recognition of man as highest value in capitalist society. Having opened it, we find in it long-familiar phrases of bourgeois propaganda to effect that dominant value of Western (i.e., capitalist) world, for all differences among cultures comprising it, lies in recognizing that the masterpiece of man is 'best man,' living 'in best society,' taking part in 'fullest' life, producing that which we term 'the most beautiful' things, and taking pleasure in them. And, having drawn that ideal model of man, which capitalist world allegedly seeks to create, author immediately notes that the Russian Communists subordinate individual to successful development of a given socio-economic system. …
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