Word: communisme
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Power, Mao Zedong famously sneered, grows out of the barrel of a gun. But the preacher of Chinese Communism neglected to add that the will to fire is a prerequisite when the target is not intimidated by threats and when a society is prepared to resist those with the guns by peaceful means. A week ago, certainly two, the protests might have been extinguished with the number of casualties usual for large demonstrations -- 20, 50, perhaps several hundred deaths. Now, the government might have to kill thousands before the protests would cease...
...reconciliation between the two Communist giants may offer more trouble than Washington has acknowledged. That once pre-eminent danger -- monolithic Communism -- may be gone, but that does not preclude new and improved threats. Detente in the East will allow Moscow to cut some of its 45 divisions stationed along the Chinese border. That's good, but not if it relieves pressure on the Kremlin to reduce troops in Eastern Europe. For Cambodia, the relaxation has accelerated the pullback of Soviet-supported Vietnamese soldiers. That's good, but not if it eases the return to influence of the Chinese-backed Khmer...
...ensuring control in backward peasant societies. During the early days of the cold war, when it seemed that nothing could contain the virus of Communist expansion, pundits attempted to assure the West that most Marxist regimes took power only with the force of outside arms. On its own, Communism took root only in benighted countries like czarist Russia and feudal China. The more advanced countries of Eastern Europe -- Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland -- had the Marxist-Leninist system thrust upon them on the point of a Soviet Red Army bayonet...
When rigid idealogues ran the Soviet Union and China, tinkering with the father of communism's ideas would have been heresy, but Gorbachev and Deng are trying to change the system of control they blame for paralyzing their economies...
Though we support the right of Alumni Association officials to actively campaign for their own candidates for the Board of Overseers, we do question the use of personal attacks and comments gratuitously linking the opposition with communism by men who are paid officials of the University or who have been appointed to represent all University alumni...