Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, it is quite possible that the Munich analogy, in the eyes of Washington officials, is merely a rhetorical device to vivify their policy of combating Communism in non-Communist countries...
...represensible exercise in official propaganda. Governments never have distinguished themselvse as merchants of intellectual honesty. But what makes the frequent invocation of "never another Munich" a particularly dangerous ploy is the absence of any detalied discussion by the government of the decidedly non-monolithic character of international Communism...
...this era, the expansion of Communism is a far more complicated affair than it was in the late 1940s. To take the two most notable examples of late, both Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro gained their power as effective opponents of oppressive, reactionary regimes before they set up popular Communist dictatorships. There is little doubt, of course, that they are far less resented by their subjects than were French General Henri Navarre and Fulgencio Batista...
...petty smuggling charges. It has yet to explain the mysterious death of Charles Jordan, vice chairman of the American Joint Distribution Committee, whose body was found in the Vltava River in August. Another sign of a less permissive policy: Czech border guards have opened fire on fugitives from Communism, in the past two months killing two and wounding three others who were trying to cross the border into Austria...
...into it; as Marx saw it, the capitalist pays the worker only a poor part of the real value of his output while skimming off the surplus as unjust profit. In perhaps the most widely touted passage from Das Kapital, he predicted that all this would inevitably lead to Communism: "The centralization of the means of production and the socialization of labor reach a point where they prove incompatible with their capitalist husk. The knell of private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated...