Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uninspired by Communist ideology, bored by the endless propaganda, envious of the luxuries that life in the West offers. Reflecting the official concern, the Supreme Soviet created a new Commission on Youth Affairs, whose lofty and perhaps unattainable mission will be to try and lead the young back to Communism. Failing that, the commission can perhaps at least find some ways to control the rowdies who at present are contributing to the Soviet Union's sharply rising crime rate...
...able to lead Greece smoothly from the condition of a developing country to that of a fully developed society. We expect this society to offer adequate employment, to raise productivity to a satisfactory level, and to provide incomes that adequately meet the cost of living. This will eliminate Communism as a dan ger. In this country, we intend to face Communism by the only right method -social and economic measures, not by police methods...
Moonlight is a realist. Moonlight hates capitalism and its politicians and its extensions into facism and its wars. "But I have already told you that property is murder." Moonlight does not like communism either. But Moonlight isn't even a humane anarchist. Benevolence is inhuman, like Whitman "wanting to paw over everybody." Moonlight directs his sexuality and his hate. Moonlight is an activist...
...world tours. Everywhere he went, he was acclaimed as the embodiment of a new Russia dispelling the miasma of its Stalinist past. Enjoying it all, Evtushenko took to offering political pronouncements at press conferences. Since many of his audiences assumed him to be as critical as they were of Communism, he more and more found himself driven to the defense of his country and-dismayingly to many of his admirers-its system and some of its injustices as well...
...Ignazio Silone is one of the world's few gainfully employed freelance socialists. He adopted this rubric 40 years ago, after a series of political and moral crises persuaded him that Russian-dominated Communism was a perversion of Marxist and humanitarian ideals. He had been a founder of the Italian Communist Party, a shadow person in the anti-Fascist underground, a delegate to Moscow convocations of the faithful and an exile from Mussolini's Italy. In 1930, he settled in Switzerland, and stayed for 14 years, writing novels. His best was Bread and Wine (1937), the story...