Word: communisme
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...continent. Colin Winter, the exiled bishop of Namibia (South West Africa) divides all Christians into the "church of the oppressor and the church of the oppressed." Says Winter sourly: "I don't think a Polish Pope can understand Africa. His attitudes are extremely reactionary. His hangup is Communism, Communism...
...Tito, who, almost without challenge, had ruled Yugoslavia for nearly 35 years and his country's Communist Party for 41. He was, for many years, the Kremlin's least favorite Marxist-a maverick who wrested Yugoslavia from Moscow's grasp in 1948 to create an unorthodox Communism incorporating traces of free enterprise. He was also a defiant co-founder of the nonaligned movement that has become the dominant force in the Third World. In the year before his death he visited Cuba, where delegates to the Sixth Conference of the Nonaligned Countries paid him fitting homage...
...Soviet lexicon, "Titoism" became a synonym for treason. But Tito did not buckle, even in the face of an economic boycott and Moscow's invasion threats. With Party Theoretican Edvard Kardelj and other close associates, he began mapping out a new form of Communism, vastly different from the Soviet model. Tito and his colleagues lifted harsh police controls on the population and reversed the policy of forced collectivization of farm land. They formulated the "self-management" system, under which factory employees and managers came to share in management decisions, decide on promotions and set their own wages...
...existing beneath the umbrella of its overall good effect of preserving individual freedom. Capitalism has a good case to argue. It is the case of freedom." The fact remains that throughout the world, millions prefer security to freedom, or think they do, never having known real freedom. Indeed doublethink Communism teaches them to redefine security as freedom...
...market economies are doing so poorly, are the centrally directed command economies doing any better? No. Capitalism's primary rival, Communism, is afflicted by most of the same ailments, and more. Communist countries are encountering far more difficulty than the West in adapting to the age of economic anxiety. After substantial gains from low bases during the 1950s and early 1960s, progress in Communist economies has sharply slowed in recent years. Technology, innovation and productivity have fallen further behind most Western countries. Economic growth in the Soviet Union last year was about 2%, the lowest since the 1930s...