Word: leninistic
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...next day, the radio proclaims the birth of the People's Republic of Afghanistan. Tanks are wreathed in flowers, "doubtless following the prescription of some revolutionary handbook," my father writes home. The portrait painter down the street begins churning out likenesses of Afghanistan's new President, Marxist-Leninist Nur Mohammed Taraki. (See pictures of hidden Afghanistan...
...would be unable to continue its upward climb unless it converted to Western ways, and Martin Jacques' When China Rules the World (2009), which countered that Beijing is destined to displace Washington as capital of the world's leading superpower - and will not have to abandon Confucian values or Leninist structures to do so. (See pictures of China...
...President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; she's also his personal choice to succeed him as the Workers' Party presidential candidate in October's general election. The constitution prevents Lula from seeking a third consecutive term, which is why he picked the tough-talking former Marxist-Leninist to carry on his progressive policies. But to win the job, Dilma - who, like many Brazilian public figures is known by just one name - will need Lula out on the campaign trail...
...arms over the years. Suggestions made by some Pakistani officials linking Baluch separatism to the activities of the Taliban are wrong, says Harrison. Baluch nationalism has always been a secular project; its militant fronts warring with Pakistan, like the Baluch Liberation Army, descend from a tradition of Marxist-Leninist guerrillas that took root in the 1970s. Jundullah, though an avowedly Sunni group, articulates its identity as a rejection of the Shia clerics ruling Iran - a political act - rather than one born out any particular fervor...
...whole, the Communist Party has proven itself to be remarkably adaptable and open to borrowing elements from different countries and political systems. As a result it is becoming a hybrid party with elements of East Asian neo-authoritarianism, Latin American corporatism and European social democracy all grafted to Confucianist-Leninist roots. The uprising in Tiananmen and across China in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of communist systems in Europe and the Soviet Union were instructive experiences for the CCP. Many lessons were drawn, but the principal one was to remain flexible and adaptable, not dogmatic and rigid. (Read "Beijing Clamps...