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Calling Reagan's economic program "an insult to the middle class and working poor," John Oakes, former New York Times editorial page editor, said during the debate that the budget is "as unprincipled as it is brutal...
What the West does not quite realize, though, is the fact that Jaruzelski and his Soviet backers play a very perfidious game. First came the brutal crackdown with all its atrocities: shooting at striking workers, beating people to death, detaining thousands of people in concentration camps. The West was justly indignant. Now is the time of some "relaxation" and "normalization". The curfew will probably be shortened an hour or two, people will be free to travel within their provinces or make telephone calls within their cities; in the next few weeks maybe several hundreds of detainees will be released. What...
Obviously, as things now stand this country needs potent armed forces. We also need the service academies to train our colonels and generals. But why go out of our way to indoctrinate mere children into the necessarily brutal and often unthinking, unchallenging ways of the military? The Bunker Hills of this world are designed specifically to convince students that honor is a thing not subject to interpretation, that the ultimate question is, "Who has authority?" not "What do we do with it once we have it?" Jaffe admitted that the folks at the real-life Valley Forge Military Academy--where...
Fearing a national outcry, Gierek was reluctant to ease the strain on the budget by raising prices. He was right. When he finally increased prices in 1976, there were major riots in Radom and at the Ursus tractor factory. The brutal repression of these riots led to the formation of the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR), a precursor of Solidarity. The organization was the first significant link between the dissident intellectuals like Jacek Kuron and the workers who later founded Solidarity. Inspired by KOR activists, small independent?and illegal?labor unions cautiously began to form in various parts...
...deny that Marxism-particularly as interpreted by Lenin-provided many of the concepts, attitudes and institutions that made Stalinism possible. Ex-Communists such as Arthur Koestler, author of the famous anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon, have argued persuasively that Communism is corrupt and corrupting because of the brutal way that power is often attained and maintained. As the absolute embodiment of both power and corruption, Stalin represented an extreme but not an aberration...