Word: internationalistic
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Lenin's analysis broke down because it failed to account for the strength of nationalism among people in the advanced capitalist powers. Internationalist sentiment persisted on the Europeanleft after the war, but it never gained enough leverage to deter imperialism. Internationalist and anti-imperialist feeling in the United States was even more helpless in the face of the emerging American collossus several decades later...
SALVADOR ALLENDE never saw himself merely as a Chilean. His concerns, naturally, were primarily with the situation in his own country, but as a true internationalist, his hopes never wavered that all of Latin America, the entire world, in fact, would eventually be liberated from poverty and oppression. Like Simon Bolivar, Benito Juarez and Che Guevara before him, his search for justice did not end at the borders of the country of his birth...
Peking's Foreign Ministry: "Should the U.S. Government disregard the desire of the people of Viet Nam and obdurately persist in its war of aggression, the Chinese people will, as always, resolutely perform their internationalist duty and give all-out support and assistance to the Vietnamese people till complete victory is won." Premier Chou En-lai said that the renewed bombing could endanger the improved Chinese-American relations...
...finds more than a few sentences about him in the official histories. Ten years ago he returned to the California coast where he was born, buying a house in Santa Monica that once belonged to Charlie Chaplin. He still keeps studios in Europe, and, at 49, remains the compleat internationalist...
...expected. The tally clerk droned on down the list. At one point, early on, there were six for passage, two against. A few names later the score was six to six-and then it began to slide. The name of Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, an aristocratic internationalist, was called. Crisply, he announced: "No." Now the count stood at twelve for, 18 against...