Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wang, in order to survive in the party structure, may try to walk a tightrope between the radicals and the pragmatist faction led by Chou Enlai. For example, there was one significantly moderate note in his speech to the Congress, when he pledged, on behalf of the party's young members, "to learn modestly from the strong points of veteran cadres...
...intellectuals of Eastern Europe have yet to benefit from the improving political climate between East and West. If anything, their lot has deteriorated, particularly in Czechoslovakia, where the leader of the Politburo's hardline faction, Vasil Bilak, seems to be carrying out a witch hunt against suspect liberal ideas. The lessening of tensions, Bilak has announced, will not result in official toleration of "rightists, opportunists, revisionists and organizers of counter-revolution...
Smith settled at XERF, just south of Ciudad Acuna, where he served as the businesslike station manager during the day and developed the Wolfman routine as the nighttime star. Control of the station was being contested by a rival faction, which at one point tried to take over by using hired gunmen. Wolfman says that he and his own pistoleros recaptured the station in a shootout that killed one of the bad guys. Later he ran a second station in Rosarito Beach, near Tijuana...
Making "revolutionaries" members of the Democratic Party merely creates a more radical version of New York's New Democratic Coalition, a disorganized and slightly comical caucus of liberal Democrats. As another loyal faction in the Democratic organization, Domhoff's radicals are only another interest group calling for concessions. They bear partial responsibility for party decisions, and are open to co-optation by party liberals. It was a variation on Domhoff's brand of party loyalty that made possible the Watergate break-in and coverup. Dedication to any organization whose basic aim is the expansion of its own power can only...
...correct in asserting that any revolutionary movement in the United States cannot be based on the "hate America" approach often adopted by the New Left. The idea of a nationalist revolution, emphasizing American themes, is tactically appealing. But in reacting to New Left failures, Domhoff has wed his revolutionary faction too closely to traditional American institutions. In order to make revolution palatable, he has abandoned...