Word: communisme
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...made by China's leaders during the past 30 years. He is referring to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Both campaigns were initiated to rekindle enthusiasm for Communist ideology. Both episodes turned into disasters. Now China's leaders have seen the light. In its pure form Communism cannot exist; it must adopt some capitalist traits. Otherwise, the "polarization between rich and poor" that Deng speaks of will occur in a drastic way. As China's leader says, "You should give them [the peasants] the power to make money." What is a more important characteristic of capitalism than...
...know Communism," Reagan told an aide before he sat down with Gorbachev. "I've followed it for 30 years." He would not, he vowed, make it a Mike and Ronnie show, nor a kissing, hugging acquaintance. Yet, when the Soviet boss showed up, Reagan, in directing him up the stairs, touched Gorbachev gently on the arm. A surprising number of people who saw that small gesture remembered it. That was body language for civility, not intimacy...
...Other Marxist heresies In Eastern Europe, too, governments have been trying to make Communism work better. Hungary's relative prosperity has made it the envy of its neighbors, while Yugoslavia is testimony that not all the failures Marxism can be blamed on Moscow...
...monumental scale to blend seemingly irreconcilable elements: state ownership and private property, central planning and competitive markets, political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom. Indeed, it is almost, or so it often seems to skeptics in both the Western and Marxist worlds, an attempt to combine Communism and capitalism...
...Cold War tensions rose in the late 1940s and early 1950s, fears of communism surged across the United States, and the nation’s university campuses were no exception...