Word: karle
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Poles have revolted countless times against their oppressors, only to fail heroically. Almost every generation of Poles for the past century and a half has risen in arms. This penchant for rebellion?evident again in Solidarity?prompted Karl Marx to call Poland the "thermometer of the intensity and vitality of all revolutions since 1789." Successive occupations and uprisings, moreover, gave Poles a deep-rooted mistrust of foreign-imposed governments and sharpened their skills at organizing broad-based conspiracies. It also increased their pride in the past. Many of Solidarity's buttons show the Polish eagle adorned with the crown that...
Whatever idea Jaruzelski is helping defend in Poland today, it is certainly not the one that Karl Marx had in mind 134 years ago, when he and Friedrich Engels wrote, at the beginning of their Communist Manifesto, "A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism." By that, they meant the spirit of the underclasses, seeking vengeance against their exploiters. Nor is Jaruzelski defending the vision summed up in the closing exhortation of the Manifesto: "Working men of all countries, unite!" In Poland, the workers have been trying to unite for a better life, but their efforts are haunted...
...move. The Polish party is deeply demoralized after losing an estimated one-third of its 3 million members during the past year. It is distressing to the entire Communist world for a country's armed forces to become more powerful than its Politburo. That is a contradiction of Karl Marx's warning to avoid such "bonapartism" by ensuring that the party be always supreme. Thus the rebuilding of the party, and how strong he chooses to make it, is one of the interesting tasks facing Jaruzelski...
Wide Receivers--Shaun Teernes, Dartmouth; Karl Hall, Penn...
Speaking on what he called the traditional issue of East-West relations. Karl Kaiser, director of the Institute of Foreign Policy Research in Bonn, Germany, said the peace movement threatened NATO's strategy of "flexible response" to any Soviet nuclear threat. He questioned whether NATO governments could in the future design and implement national security strategies without the Soviet Union subtly undermining their public support...