Word: communisme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russians have more cause for alarm, of course. Freedom and democracy were supposed to improve the lives of communism's huddled masses; instead most Russians today are considerably worse off than they had been under the red flag. No individual more memorably personified Russian antipathy to communism than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the writer who turned his horrific experiences inside Stalin's gulag into the defining novel of the Soviet era. And if Solzhenitsyn was a moral compass for Russian anti-communism, then his views on post-Soviet Russia offer pause for thought: "One might have imagined that things could not have...
...Russians, the price of freedom has been a poverty unknown even amid the drudgery of communism at its wheezy end, for the wider world it has ushered in a mix of the promise (and perils) of a truly global capitalist economy and mounting geopolitical uncertainty. It seemed safe to assume, a decade ago, that the end of a conflict between two powers whose combined nuclear arsenals could destroy the planet 300 times over would leave the world a safer place. Instead, today's world is more dangerous than ever. The very power in those nuclear arsenals - once they confronted...
...under the communists they had some stability. And illusions. They were poor, but their poverty was shared. They were equal in poverty. Now they see that some people are doing very well, but they're still stuck in poverty. What's worse, they no longer have any hope. Under communism, they labored under the illusion that if they saved and saved, eventually they would have enough money to buy a car or an apartment, or that if their kids studied hard, they could go to college and get a better job. Now they don't even have those illusions. Their...
...Would Tung have called Buddhists "evil cultists" because some monks had committed self-immolation? Would he have banned Buddhism? Before answering, he and his supporters would do well to ponder the following. Communism is as alien to China as Catholicism was to Vietnam?both are European in origin. By contrast, Falun Gong's teachings, however simplistic and superstitious, are rooted in three ancient Chinese traditions: Qigong, Taoism and Buddhism. Those in China who still profess to believe in communism are as small a minority as Catholics were in Vietnam. Perhaps a few Falun Gong followers did burn themselves to death...
...right, which only a decade ago claimed to represent Europe's mainstream, wind up in this mess? In part by winning the battle of ideas. During the cold war, the center-right defined itself against the specter of communism and assailed the socialist left for giving comfort to the enemy. But as communism crumbled, the European center-left adopted conservative positions on social issues, while embracing free markets, cozying up to business and supporting military interventions. Most significantly, center-left governments in Britain, France and Germany have earned voters' confidence as competent stewards of the economy, responsive to the challenges...