Word: communisme
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...Soviet Union, the sick man of Eurasia, is in desperate economic shape. It suffers from a mix of mutually exacerbating ailments. What they have in common is their base: the institutionalized absurdity known as communism. A system that radiates orders from the top down destroys initiative on the part of workers and managers, hampering the quantity and quality of production. Government-set and -subsidized prices are kept so low that producers have no incentive to produce, retailers no incentive to sell...
...just as Cold War consciousness told Americans that they were responsible for fighting the spread of communism around the world, the ever-strengthening environmental movement calls on them to stop ecological destruction beyond the shores of the United States...
...long ago, such comments would have been considered a betrayal of socialist ideals and Isayev would have been sacked. Today, with glasnost gusting through the Soviet Union and communism lying in tatters throughout Eastern Europe, teachers and pupils in these countries are experiencing a new burst of intellectual freedom. Exults Jaroslav Bek, an English teacher at Prague's Belojannisova Street School: "At last we can tell the truth to the children...
However refreshing the new honesty may be, it does not repair the damage done by decades of dogmatic rigidity. Science and other fact-based disciplines largely escaped politicalization under communism, but economics and the social sciences were systematically reshaped to conform to Marxist principles. Now that ideology no longer governs how such subjects as history and philosophy are taught, professors are unsure what to tell their students -- or even what the truth is. "They are at square one," says Sarah Lawrence president Alice Ilchman, who visited the Comenius Institute of Education in Prague earlier this year. "They want to know...
...week Solidarity will hold its first congress since 1981. Walesa will certainly be re-elected leader of the trade union, and that will give him a base to further his political ambitions. That now seems to be what most interests the man who led the Polish struggle to overthrow communism...