Word: communisme
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...most famous living author. Blake, an acquaintance of Solzhenitsyn's and a scholar, translator and editor of Soviet literature, was an appropriate emissary. The result, which appears in this week's World section: Solzhenitsyn's stern warning to the Western world about the threats posed by Communism. Blake is well versed in the views of the man who, she says, "remains, even in exile, the most powerful and resonant voice speaking for the oppressed peoples of the Soviet Union." For several years, Blake has been preparing a biography of the writer, or as she describes...
...secret to the society's longevity lies in the simplicity of its message and its diligence in spreading the word. Communists, or their minions, are working to see the "Christian style civilization" buried under Marx's big boot. But Birch Communism has almost nothing to do with Marx; "Communist" for the society is simply an adjective, a pejorative applied to any form of government control. John Birchers have a nearly pathological fear of government control; the line blurrs between traffic lights and the abolition of private property, both forms of governmental intrusion into people's lives. It is nostalgia tempered...
...What is Communism but total government control?" McManus asks honestly ignorant of any answer. Every political issue fits into the government/Communist control spectrum. "Are you aware that one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto is free public education?" he inquires with a smile. "You don't have a right to an education." He smiles some more when he describes how the society is spreading the good word: the speakers bureau is the second largest in the country(only Sports Illustrated's is bigger) and schedule people like ex-Marine hero Lewis Millett to expound the society line on grueling...
...John Birch Society will never work into the mainstream, never become acceptable. Defeat has been welded on their faces as clearly as anti-Communism has been grafted into their hearts. They know that the public's conception of their organization is a lunatic fringe of the right wingers. No matter how moderate the society s stands on specific issues, that image will remain...
...uncomfortable, even unpleasant, allies. They are generous with arms but stingy with other economic aid, and their advisers are often boorish "ugly Russians." If nothing else, the Soviets are persistent, and they accept setbacks as only temporary. The Kremlin also has a word for regimes that have adopted Communism and the Moscow line: irreversible...