Word: communisme
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...hemispheric affairs that is usually taken to mean we must prevent communism from jumping to the North American mainland. Well, great. But even assuming communism is like a weather front or measles, spreadable as pollen on the wind, we may be more responsible for its currency in the Third World than the Soviets. I found Nicaraguans much fonder of Americans than of Russians, but far angrier at the U.S. Government than at anything the USSR has done. Nicaragua is a country where veneration for Marx, though well advanced in some circles, is considerably less than the veneration for the Virgin...
...previously about what is produced in the social sciences, by some people and how this production affects "politics." This political motivation does not mean that I support some wing over another wing, say the left wing over the right wing, or that I support some "ism" ideology like socialism, communism or capitalism. I understand "politics" to mean in the broad sense how one deals with social organizations, how we arrive at decisions concerning society, the role of government, the role of education, the role of the press in informing the public, how information is processed (by the press, by individuals...
...decade before Solidarity was born. Walesa's 604-page autobiography, A Path of Hope, published last week in France, contains no new or explosive disclosures, but it eloquently and simply portrays brave citizens pitted against a political tyranny. Without ever explicitly saying so, Walesa's story lays waste Communism's historic claim that it represents the interests of workers. Noted the French newspaper Le Figaro: "It is thrilling. Page after page Walesa creates himself before our eyes...
...that he made Nixon look like a scholar and statesman in comparison." The outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 practically guaranteed his victory in the Senate race against Douglas, who, Ambrose points out, inaugurated the mudslinging in that notoriously dirty campaign by charging that Nixon was soft on Communism...
...agree with it. Communist states and military dictatorships do it with a passion, but it is no stranger to American politics, either. Senator Joe McCarthy made his brief and infamous career out of slander and innuendo in the 1950s and the Left and Right have traded accusations of "communism" and "fascism" for decades. But why do otherwise intelligent and rational people have to resort to such character assassination? And why does it continue to happen on university campuses, of all places...