Word: communistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first nasty epithet was scarcely out of his mouth before Rumania's Ceausescu was scribbling a reply on the notepad in front of him and demanding the floor. The Rumanians had made clear that they would attend the summit only on the understanding that the internal affairs of any Communist Party, present or absent, would not be discussed...
When the Paraguayan finished, Ceausescu broke in to issue a blunt, 500-word warning that the discussion was taking an unwelcome and unwise turn. "To our regret, in today's speech by the representative of the Communist Party of Paraguay, attacks and condemnations were included against one party that is not attending the conference. We consider that if other par ties follow this procedure, this will lead to a course fraught with danger for the success of our conference," he said. Undeterred, Polish First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka resumed the Soviet-orchestrated attack on the Chinese: "The principles of internationalism have...
Mirroring the larger schisms within Communism, the individual parties have divided, subdivided and often split into opposing parties. The Australian and Israeli Communists are divided into two parties. The Swedes, Indians, and Greeks all are split three ways. Labedz has propounded a rule that Communist politics "are complicated in inverse proportion to the party's importance in the country"; thus the Ceylonese Communists, who number only 2,300, have proliferated into eight discernible factions...
...welter of crosscurrents, at least four principal variants of Communism are alive in the world today. They are 1) Soviet Communism, 2) Maoism, 3) Castroism and 4) reformist Communism as it occurs in two sub-variants: Western Communist parties out of power and ruling parties within the Red world...
...also highly emotional. A modern echo of classic Chinese opera, Maoism whines in shrill hyperbole. Rigidly doctrinaire, Chinese Communism retains the traditional belief that a clash with capitalism is inevitable; it calls for wars of national liberation throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mao, who immodestly considers himself a Communist innovator on a par with Marx and Lenin, sees the development of world revolution as a repetition of the strategy used by the Chinese Communists to achieve power in 1949. At that time, mass peasant armies surrounded the cities where the government held power, and finally seized them. Mao envisions...