Word: communisms
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...decided that I could really use an "-ism." An "-ism" is something that was defined for me a long time ago by my high school European history teacher. Nationalism, Socialism, Communism--"-isms" were things that could make a bunch of disgruntled peasants forget their gripes about the government and focus their energies on their hate for other countries, he explained. "-Isms" were things that people didn't mind going to war for. Meanwhile, in the back of the classroom, my neighbor claimed that he could really get this country going by dispersing the seeds of "j-ism" to the population...
With his walrus mustache, twinkling eyes and charismatic way with words, Bove, 46, seems like a French reincarnation of Poland's Lech Walesa, the plucky union leader who helped topple communism. Bove has become a popular symbol of the fear and loathing many Europeans feel in the face of American-dominated globalization that threatens their culture and national identity...
Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, a pioneering scholar who, at the height of the Cold War, first noted the differences between Chinese and Soviet communism, died Sunday night of cancer...
...1950s Schwartz was the first to publish a major study--his first book, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao--that treated Chinese communism as an ideology substantively different from Soviet communism...
...unorthodox, even revolutionary thesis, at a time when most scholars assumed that Chinese communism was an outgrowth of the Soviet empire...