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Marxism-Leninism, frequently known as Communism, is the governing force in the Soviet Union and its East bloc satellites, as well as in China, Mongolia, North Korea, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Albania and Yugoslavia. The most repressive variant of socialism, Marxism-Leninism is a kind of secular religion, preaching the necessity of class warfare, the dictatorship of the proletariat and the concentration of near total power in a tightly structured party that is supposedly the vanguard of the revolutionary masses. Communism is dogmatic in its determination to abolish private property and nationalize the means of production as the first...
When accused of violating human rights, Marxist-Leninists have usually retorted that once true Communism is established, the dictatorship of the proletariat will disappear, leaving the individual genuinely free for the first time. Meanwhile, though, these facts raise hard questions about the true intentions of the so-called Eurocommunist parties of Italy, France and Spain: after decades of being apologists for totalitarianism, they now profess their commitments to democratic principles. Purged from their platforms is the once obligatory rhetoric calling for violent revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat. Italian Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer has said that under...
...believe that the policies inspired by the Common Program and planned by the leaders of the opposition would not have ruinous consequences for the French economy. The Socialists can obviously engage in doubletalk, making demagogic promises and then letting it be known that they are the best rampart against Communism. But if the promises made by Mr. Mitterrand are fulfilled in the first weeks following an opposition victory, and if the first session of the new National Assembly is devoted to nationalization of a large number of French companies, it would mean inflation, an increased trade deficit, depreciation...
...CONFIDENCE IN BARRE. The tree referred to a celebrated comparison made by Premier Raymond Barre, who had likened his efforts to boost the French economy to nurturing a tree. "Obstinately but durably, the tree grows little by little," Barre assured French voters. On the other hand, Socialism and Communism blow in like a "typhoon," wreaking havoc in the whole forest...
...convincing, Gornick, not to mention her powerless elite, would have had to exhibit a sense of values considerably more discriminating than paradoxical effusions about the "sorrow and glory" of American Communism...