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Aside from the troubles of the Common Market, perhaps the most widely discussed economic topic in Europe is a spreading phenomenon known as "Le Plan." So called because the French, having Gallicized what they found useful to borrow, have pushed it hard at home and proselytized for it throughout Europe...
Nikita Khrushchev was getting a little self-conscious about the way the capitalist world was cheering on Red Russia's quarrel with Red China. At a Moscow party given by the visiting King of Laos, Nikita grabbed the hand of the Chinese ambassador for all the attendant Western correspondents...
For two hours, the Communist host and his capitalist guest exchanged good-natured gibes, hitting it off quickly when they discovered that they were born a few weeks apart in 1894. Five times, Thomson suggested vainly that the Premier hold free elections in East Germany, and once Khrushchev called his...
"The Cuban revolution may be a failure economically," Matthews said, "but economics alone do not determine the success or failure of a revolution. When Castro and his followers seized power in 1959, they saw around them extreme social imbalance, unending corruption, and the tragic farce of democracy and capitalism.
As its premise, The Meaning of Communism argues that Communism, though "implacably dedicated to destroying freedom," is undergoing such "evolutionary changes'' that its dogmas "may in time become something different in practice." In a concise analysis, the book traces the process right back to Marx, whose prophecies of...