Word: leninistic
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...speeches conveyed a common theme: the channels of party control should flow up from the rank and file instead of down from the leadership. It was a heretical challenge to the Leninist principle of "democratic centralism." The delegates put their ideas into concrete form in a near unanimous resolution calling for among other things, leadership changes and the direct election of delegates to July's party congress...
Moscow could hardly take such heresies lightly. Even before the Torun gathering, Pravda had stepped up its attacks on those within the Polish party who held "views foreign to a Marxist-Leninist party." In the view of many Western analysts, the liberal evolution of the Polish party could pose a far more serious threat to the Soviets than the independent labor movement. Indeed, the situation seemed increasingly to resemble that of Czechoslovakia in 1968, when a party-led reform movement finally brought on a Soviet-led invasion. In the case of Poland, the immediate invasion threat appeared to be receding...
Most analysts feel that the Soviets could accept a certain amount of pluralism in Poland as long as a strong party retained a firm grip on the reins. But therein lies another political hazard-for the Polish party itself seems bent on reversing Leninist orthodoxy. In a watershed decision two weeks ago, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania bowed to rank-and-file demands and announced that delegates to July's party congress would be elected by secret ballot from an unlimited list of candidates. Until now, most delegates were chosen by the party leadership according to the Leninist principle...
...they edge toward a decision in Poland, the Methuselahs of Moscow figure that they have not only the slogan of Marxist-Leninist internationalism on their side to justify an invasion, but 36 years of precedents as well. Many of these men, after all, have careers that stretch back to 1945 and the wartime Allied conference at Yalta, which established a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. In Joseph Stalin's eyes, Poland was the most important part of that sphere because it is a buffer between Russia and Germany...
...frontespiece of the Spectator, for example, is a column written by editor R. Emmett Tyrell and titled "The Continuing Crisis," which diagnoses the grave illnesses of America by pointing to symptoms. This month, Tyrell dislikes Bill Walton ("tiresome proponent of New Age claptrap," "Marxist-Leninist thumper for health food"), liberation theologists, and the Washington press corps (who need a "manual on the fundamentals of courtesy"). There are signs of recovery, though; President Reagan has restored "dignity to realms where there recently had been mawkishness and amateurism unsurpassed in American history," and Secretary of State Alexander Haig has refused Soviet ambassador...