Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates expected to attend the congress. Despite a vigorous, yearlong purge of opponents of his regime, there is still some resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion?on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members?traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many as 10 million of those new recruits are suspected of being Gang of Four sympathizers...
Chirac has carried on with his aggressive anti-left crusade, charging that the Communists and Socialists were indistinguishable "collectivists." For the moment, he seems to be the big loser in the leftist split. Concedes one of his deputies: "We've been brandishing the Socialist-Communist specter. Now that's not credible any more. We're revising our strategy." Chirac is also seeking to change his image as a hard-lining right-winger. He is barnstorming around France three days a week until the elections, trying to convince voters that he really favors progressive economic and social change...
...Toward a Communist- Catholic dialogue
...glass Santa Chiara Church. He watches them enter and returns when Mass is over to accompany them home. In a country where husbands often leave churchgoing to their women, the scene is not unusual-except for one thing. The man is Enrico Berlinguer, secretary-general of Italy's Communist Party and an atheist who nonetheless is willing to accommodate the steadfast faith of his wife Letizia...
Berlinguer is also trying to come to terms with the Roman Catholic Church, to which more than 90% of all Italians belong. In a conciliatory open letter to an Italian bishop-quickly dubbed "the Berlinguer encyclical"-the Communist leader has provoked an unprecedented dialogue with the church by proffering assurances that his party not only respects religion but sees it as a possible stimulus toward building a true socialist society. Criticizing religious "intolerence" in Eastern Europe, Berlinguer said-heresy of Communist heresies-that Marxism was not an "ideological creed" but an analytical method, and that his party...