Word: leninistic
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...serious, coordinated way. Neither the National Security Council, which is the President's personal think tank, nor the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, which is supposed to look over the horizon of foreign policy, is engaged in a systematic review of U.S. strategy for dealing with Marxist- Leninist regimes outside Europe. Instead, the regional experts of the + bureaucracy are nibbling away at their own pieces of what should be seen, and addressed, as a global challenge -- and opportunity...
...What we are talking about is perfecting a single, Leninist party based on the principles of democratic centralism," the committee pronounced only two weeks after the Soviet Communist Party, following the lead of its East European counterparts, abolished its monopoly on power. The new policy is designed to improve the party's organization to make it more responsive, but not to expose it to competition. In a speech before the National Assembly last week, Castro reiterated that Havana would not remove "the tiniest bit of authority from the party...
...communism in Eastern Europe. Although most Third World states were never considered much more than pawns in the cold war waged between Washington and Moscow, membership in the Soviet orbit had its privileges. For decades, military, economic and political support flowed to those nations that dutifully toed the Marxist-Leninist line. Now, while the rest of the world gasps with delight -- checkbooks in hand -- at the political and economic changes sweeping the East bloc, Soviet-supported Third World countries see their interests being knocked further down the list of international priorities...
Mozambique. President Joaquim Chissano is showing much more pragmatism than Mengistu. Last summer Chissano's government abandoned the Marxist-Leninist credo that his Frelimo Party has embraced since it came to power in 1975. Transformed from "a vanguard of the worker and peasant alliance" to "a party of all the Mozambican people," the ruling group has stepped up market reforms that it initiated in the mid-1980s. Last January Chissano introduced a draft constitution that embraces universal suffrage, a secret ballot, direct election of both the President and the parliament and the reintroduction of private ownership of land...
Najibullah, who has proven himself an able politician and administrator, is adjusting his own policies to accommodate Moscow's changing world view. He has refashioned his Soviet-installed regime over the past three years, to obscure its Marxist-Leninist lineage, and offered free elections, to be monitored by the United Nations. He has embarked on reforms that include support for a market-based economy. Najibullah's homage to glasnost has included the opening of an Islamic university and publication of a list of Afghans killed by his hard-line predecessors. And he has reached out to rebel mujahedin factions with...