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Reagan and Communism...
Reagan's role in the downfall of communism formed the focus of the foreign policy debate. Harry James Wilson '93, former president of the Republican Club and a Crimson editor argued that "Reagan, like his predecessors opposed communism. The difference between the Reagan and his predecessors was success...
...Communism will never come back and democracy is a real goal," he said. "Russia will not be an oppressive military power" in the near future...
...must remember what gave birth to communism in the first place: the social upheavals and new poverty brought about by the Industrial Revolution, troubles that preceded its immense benefits. The man-made calamities of the capitalist free market constituted, as it were, acts of God without God. The socialist movements that sprang up in protest were animated partly by Luddite rage, partly by the dreams of a just and stable society, a New Jerusalem. These dreams have not been eradicated by their devastating practical failure...
...communism crashes, nationalism seems to be replacing it as a menace. The Soviet Union has broken up into a clutch of quarrelsome new countries: yesterday's republics whose names we are still learning. They will be lucky if they are not torn apart by civil war like Yugoslavia. The Balkans are back with a vengeance...