Word: communisme
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This atavistic trend is a direct result of the Soviet capitulation in the cold war. The core of communism was a strong center: it was from there that the orders and the troops came. A single ruler could intimidate or punish the farthest corner of his domain. The Yugoslavs used to say, "We have six republics, five ethnic groups, four languages, three religions, two alphabets -- and one Tito." Now that there is no Tito, things fall apart; the center cannot hold...
That position repelled some of the small parties that have been springing up and split others. Nikolai Travkin, head of the Democratic Party of Russia, withdrew promised support; he is under fire from dissenters who accuse him of being -- to borrow an old American term -- soft on communism. They plan to hold a founding congress of yet another new party, an oddly named Liberal- Conservative Union, in late September. This autumn seems likely to witness the birth not of a unified but of a still further splintered opposition...
Even if the high command remains united, the army that Josip Broz Tito built during World War II threatens to fracture along the very ethnic lines that have created Yugoslavia's current miasma. Led by a cadre of generals who are the last bastion of hard-line communism in the country, the officer corps is predominantly Serbian, while the conscript ranks reflect the multiethnic complexion of the Yugoslav federation. Among the 2,300 troops captured by the Slovenes were hundreds who had turned themselves in, testimony to the lack of resolve within the ranks. Many of the troops fighting...
...American life, some multiculturalists claim that this Eurocentric bias discriminates against those from different traditions. But for openers, Eurocentric is decidedly a fuzzy term, lumping together a vast diversity of nationalities and peoples, past and present. In what person or doctrine can Eurocentrism be embodied? Savonarola? Jane Austen? Deism? Communism? Insofar as it means anything specific, Eurocentric looks suspiciously like a code word for "white." In attempting to combat racism, radical multiculturalists seem all too willing to resort to racism of another stripe...
...renamed Party of Democratic Socialism, which espouses socialism but disavows communism, remains the largest political organization in the five eastern states even though it has a mere 17 votes in the 663-seat Bundestag. ) Dietmar Keller is one of only two members of the former government who are serving as P.D.S.deputies in the Bundestag. "I've never had it so good," he says of unification, but adds that representing a party with an unsavory past can sometimes be painful. "We are treated like criminals ((in the Bundestag))," he says, "as if we are responsible for everything that went wrong...