Word: kov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers a say in choosing their bosses. Soon to come, say government economists, will be a cut in state subsidies that keep prices of some goods artificially low. "We do not deny that we are pragmatists, but our final goal of creating a socialist society remains unchanged," says Gyula Kovács, vice president of the National Planning Office. "The ways of reaching that goal are different. We leave it to history to judge which is better...
That certainly goes for Deng & Co. as much as for any other Communists. Despite his reputation as a pragmatist and a reformer, Deng realizes as clearly as Grličkov that for a Communist, pragmatism and reform must end where genuine pluralism and power-sharing begin. On that point, Deng and Brezhnev are still comrades. Of all the buzz words in the Marxist lexicon, none is more telling than "struggle." It is Marxism, both the theory and the practice, stripped to its essence. What distinguishes the Soviet prototype of Communism is the ingenious and terrible way that the struggle...