Word: khrushchevism
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...Communism uses nationalism as a vehicle, the two remain essentially inimical. The supranational loyalty to Moscow, which Stalin enforced through sheer power and terror, was artificial. Moscow is not the Third Rome. What started under Stalin, continued with Tito's defection, and goes on ever more intensely under Khrushchev, is the reascendancy of nationalism over Communism, of self-interest over ideology...
...ideological invective between Moscow and Peking camouflages rivalry between two great if unequal powers. Mao's pride in his ideological subtlety and his own Chinese Communist revolution-which he accomplished largely unaided by Russia-obviously mingles with his pride in an ancient culture and his contempt for Khrushchev as a belly-slapping vulgarian...
...Russia's anger at China's pretensions to lead Asia and Africa mingles with immemorial fears of the invading "Golden Horde" and "the Yellow Peril." Russia's course eastward to the Pacific has collided with China's course northward to the empty spaces of Siberia. Khrushchev and all Russians must be deeply worried by the thought that in 1970, they may be living next door to hundreds of millions of hostile Chinese who by then will probably have nuclear weapons...
Among Russia's European satellites, nationalism has also reasserted itself as it has in the West-and it gets stronger as fear of Khrushchev's Russia diminishes. That is why alliances on both sides are in a state of flux, and therein also lies one of the dangers to the West...
...more fundamental question is whether the Khrushchev line denotes only a temporary, tactical change in Communism or a more profound one. All Communists, no matter of what stripe, still share the aim of defeating capitalism; but this statement, while as true as ever, is no longer a sufficient analysis of the situation. Some of the metamorphoses that Communism has undergone may have begun as tactical moves which in effect make Communism more attractive, but may end up meaning more-for example, Yugoslavia's compromises with free enterprise, the Italian Communist Party's championship of the small businessman...