Word: communisme
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...world, despite the upheavals and two world wars, has come full circle and after almost 100 years, finds itself at Square 1. This century dawned amid the evils of unrestrained capitalism, symbolized by the emergence of industrial giants and a landed aristocracy. The inevitable consequence was the rise of communism. Today, as the century draws to a close, we are witnessing not only the fall of communism but sadly also the collapse of social-welfare systems for the disadvantaged. Unbridled capitalism is showing its ugly face. Once again the worker of the world is insecure. MADAN SAULDIE Cologne, Germany...
...Rouge conducted a reign of terror intended to give birth to an agrarian utopia. At the point of their guns, they emptied Cambodia's cities, abolished money and markets, shut down schools and Buddhist monasteries and forced the entire country to wear black pajamas as a sign of "instant communism." Inspired by China's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot carried its practices to the extreme. Anyone who questioned the system, anyone who spoke a foreign language, anyone who wore glasses, was executed. Thousands upon thousands perished from starvation and disease in the slave camps of the countryside, as the fatally isolated...
...Berlin Wall is brought down as communism loses its hold...
...Mexico, five months later, the Pope was speaking in Pancho Villa country and sounding very much like Pancho Villa. He wanted it made clear, he said, that in celebrating the collapse of communism, he had not meant to say capitalism had triumphed. The Pope told the great crowd that he had criticized communism not for its economic shortcomings but rather because it "violated or jeopardized the dignity of the person." That was the same papal language used in Canada in 1984, and one hears traces of it today, most recently in Havana when the Pope met with Fidel Castro...
While recent history was written at the intersection of ideologies--communism versus capitalism, fascism versus democracy--the end of the cold war has produced a collection of other, more subtle challenges. In places as diverse as Kosovo and Colombo, new history is being written in the blood of deep-seated ethnic panics. "Global politics is being reconfigured along cultural lines," argues Harvard historian Samuel P. Huntington. "Political boundaries are increasingly redrawn to coincide with cultural ones: ethnic, religious and civilizational." At the same time, much of the world is being remade by a global economy that has linked political openness...