Word: communisms
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...rarely been more important; 1992 is a year, like 1815 or 1945, when a great transformation of global politics is under way. The old verities that shaped U.S. policy have vanished: for 45 years all candidates shared the basic belief that America's main job abroad was to contain communism, though some took a more confrontational line, some a more conciliatory one. The next President faces an entirely different challenge, grappling with seismic changes in which the choices are confusing, the directions obscure...
Still, small cracks are showing in the President's facade. Confidants say he privately sounds "wounded" by a public that takes for granted his leadership in the Gulf War and his prudent oversight of communism's collapse. Sometimes this petulant attitude slips out in public, as when Bush recently observed that despite his signing a historic nuclear weapons treaty with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the public remains fixated on the economy and asks, "What have you done for us lately...
...Three years ago, a U.S. State Department analyst named Francis Fukuyama published an article titled "The End of History?"He said the contest with communism was over and that democratic pluralism has won. If capitalism and a market economy are the way the world is going, are those things compatible with the civil society as you describe...
...sure do not think that history ended with the fall of communism. The world is full of problems that are more serious than ever before. It would be a mistake to blame communism for all of civilization's problems and to think that its fall would make them disappear. The recent explosion of unrest in Los Angeles proved that even in a country with democracy and an advanced economy, conflicts may erupt to which the system has no answers...
...found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people. I came to this castle and to other governmental residences inherited from communism, and I was confronted with tasteless furniture and many tasteless pictures. Only then did I realize how closely the bad taste of former rulers was connected with their bad way of ruling. I also realized how important good taste was for politics. During political talks, the feeling...