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...voice for them in his "guided democracy." Meaningless slogans and acronyms echoed in the void. Sukarno's big movement on the world stage was the 1955 Bandung Conference of Nonaligned Nations, after which he moved with aplomb in Washington, Moscow or Peking. He spouted Lincoln as easily as Lenin...
Though the two SDS factions complemented one another in one sense, in the long run they were incompatible. At stake were not only specific ideological points but two drastically different approaches to politics. As revolutionaries, the short-haired PL'ers always resembled Lenin: intense, hardworking, and following on ideology which- no matter how far removed from reality- had at least a rigorous internal consistency. By contrast, New Left members resembled Che Gucvara: they sported long hair, waxed as romantic revolutionaries, and stressed ideology less than I got feeling to pick up a gun and fight. The tensions between these...
...decade. According to reports from Moscow, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, who last week returned to Peking, carried instructions to seek a joint Sino-Soviet approach on Indochina. Furthermore, when North Viet Nam's Party Leader Le Duan left Moscow for Peking after last month's Lenin centennial, he reportedly carried a Soviet suggestion to Chairman Mao that the two countries should get together, at least over Southeast Asia...
...cleanliness issue has cropped up across the border, too. East Germany's Volksarmee, honoring Lenin's 100th birthday, recently launched "Operation Clean Underpants" with an ambitious goal: to get 80% of the troopers to change their shorts once a week. The results have been scanty. Many soldiers simply wrote home for more underwear and regularly sent the new arrivals, unworn, to the Army laundry. Meanwhile they continued to wear, for periods of up to several weeks, the older, more lived-in garments to which they had become so attached...
Those who rule the Soviet nation today are well schooled in Lenin's theories of popular democracy, but they have conscientiously avoided any opportunity to put those theories into practice. Notably enough, the most severe political penalties meted out by the present regime are imposed on those who challenge the party's interpretation of Lenin's writings. In fact it would mean the regime's extinction if Soviet citizens were to regrasp a thought which Lenin did not live long enough to see fulfilled-that the final arbitration of society and history must not rest either with a government...