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...light of these conflicts, the FSLN moved last September to adjust its strategy to the new political conjuncture and with an aim to toppling the dictatorship. Last month's offensive corresponded to what the FSLN designated the "last phase of the revolutionary war" against Somoza, as opposed to the old strategy, favored by the more left-wing militants, emphasizing long term work in the countryside and the establishment of socialism through military struggle...
Then there is Eurocommunism. With varying degrees of emphasis and sincerity, the Communist parties of Italy, France and Spain have denounced the dictatorship of the proletariat and the Soviet Union as the only true model of Marxism, and have sworn their willingness to co-exist with bourgeois freedoms in pluralistic societies. Skepticism about the depth of these commitments, which could readily be overturned by future leaders less moderate than Spain's Santiago Carrillo or Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, is warranted. Meanwhile, Moscow tries to cope with the reality of three heretical parties that, alas, simply cannot be excommunicated...
This is heresy to Berger. "I've been a lifelong liberal. But protection from dictatorship lies in laws, and laws should be interpreted in light of what the men who wrote them meant to signify," he says...
...letter adds that the Tufts administration lies about the nature of the "Phillipine dictatorship" and the Marcos family in order to justify their acceptance of the grant...
There are liberals who fear that the worst is yet to come, and that South Africa may turn into a dictatorship. Many see, in the closing of Qoboza's World, an implicit threat that the adamantly antigovernment English-language press might be the next target. Certainly, if the government now wants to push through newspaper laws that would place publications directly under government scrutiny, there is nothing to stop...