Word: communisme
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...people were controlled by political movements whose pursuit of the millennium was as fanatical as that of their religious counterparts -- and far more destructive. Soviet, Cambodian, Korean, Chinese communists relentlessly drove their people to extremes of privation and repression in order to hasten the arrival of full-fledged "communism," the millennium as foretold by that 19th century prophet Karl Marx...
...example, Mao decided to skip the intermediate stages of "socialist construction" and go right to full communism. He called it the Great Leap Forward. It would take a million David Koreshes to kill the number of Chinese who perished (through famine, forced labor and civil unrest) to satisfy that lunge for the millennium. Two decades later, the Khmer Rouge murdered more than a million of their countrymen in an attempt, explained Khieu Samphan, to "reach total communism with one leap forward." Has any religious vision occasioned more human sacrifice than "total communism...
...Bill Clinton and a national referendum on whether Russians favored a parliamentary or presidential republic -- that he hoped would strengthen his hand against the opponents of change. Khasbulatov pre-empted him by calling in the 1,033- member Congress, a mainly naysaying group elected back in March 1990 when communism was still the power in the land. The parliamentary leader was determined to establish once and for all that the legislators, not the President, were constitutionally empowered to run the country...
When the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union deconstructed and freedom swept across the old communist bloc, American foreign policy analyst Francis Fukuyama offered a much discussed thesis about what he called "the end of history," wherein, with communism gone, the world's civilization would settle upon a kind of sun-splashed plateau of democratic pluralism and free- market rationalism. One of the worst dangers in the post-Fukuyama world might be boredom, a fitful cultural unease...
...International terrorism in the '80s was fundamentally fueled by the cold war," says Phillips, "and you can almost date the diminution of that terrorism with Gorbachev's ascension to power." But the end of communism has $ helped ignite the fires of nationalism in regions like the Balkans, emboldening other fanatical groups to sow the kind of trouble once created by Soviet and East bloc terrorists...