Word: leninistic
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...society. Among the millions attracted by this prescription were two young Chinese, named Mao Tse-tung and Deng Xiaoping, who saw in it a way to change their country from a weak, backward state pushed around by foreign powers to a mighty modern nation. Deng has remained a model Leninist in the sense of countenancing no challenge to the Communist Party's role in leading society, even when portions of the party balk at carrying out his reforms...
...deepest dilemma is whether China can achieve even the relatively free economy Deng is trying to create without undermining Leninist control of politics and society. There are many Chinese, not all Chen Yun types, who doubt that, in the long run, economic freedom can exist without greater political liberty. They are already debating what course the nation will take if they are proved right...
...destabilize, and ideally to communize other states. They wage war abroad, either outright or by more covert means, for the same reason that they oppress internal opposition: because it is opposition, and because they are totalitarian. Genuine live-and-let-live peaceful coexistence is as alien to a Marxist-Leninist foreign policy as power sharing is to Marxism-Leninism on the home front. The Sandinistas show no sign of being an exception to this rule...
...little bit upbeat," says the President. "The hardest thing to deal with is the Marxist-Leninist policy that says the Soviet Union must create one Communist world. That has to be countered. If they come to realize that our feelings about each other's system do not mean we can't live together, then we can live in this world in peace...
...political leaders under house arrest smuggled out fearful notes to reporters. "If enough pressure is not exerted on Gyanendra, he may go to the extreme, [taking] dictatorial steps against the political parties, the leaders and the people," wrote Madhav Nepal, leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist), who had been widely regarded as a Prime Minister-in-waiting. Still, even he agreed that the country's political leaders have let down democracy's cause. "The performance and delivery of the parties, especially in power, was not good," he wrote in a note to TIME...