Word: marxisms
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...outbreaks were dealt with as best we could," said U Nu. "Only after some time did we realize our mistakes." He first tried to win the Communists back into "leftist unity" by appeasement; he referred to them as "ignoramuses" in their deviation from the true Marxism, and drafted a 15-point plan calling for the propagation of "Marxist doctrine" (a plan he now very much regrets). The Communist answer was characteristic: they gathered their forces, and struck when they were ready. "Give us three years," cried Communist Than Tun in 1948, "and Burma will be ours!" Prime Minister...
...Cult of the Gun." U Nu will argue Marxism with Communists over a pot of plain tea, but he will not let them undermine free Burma with a gun. As Prime Minister, he goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that his people understand this, the difference he considers vital. "For 2,000 years." he cried, "we in Burma had the tradition that he who can kill a King becomes a King . . . The conflict is not between government and rebels, but a conflict between . . . the rights of the people and the cult of the gun." He tells his people: "Beware...
Arbenz is out. This week Guatemala, after four years of skidding toward the Soviet orbit and ten days of bombing and strafing by anti-Communist rebel invaders, found its President's Marxism and his Communist kibitzers too much. Top army officers forced him to quit, and took power with a junta of three colonels...
...Spurious Marxism." In characteristic fashion, Mayor La Pira was worried by a layoff at a Florence toilet-goods factory that would put 72 people out of work. La Pira sent off telegrams to Rome demanding government action to save their jobs. When he was publicly criticized for doing so, La Pira replied hotly that the times call for "essentially an economy of state intervention...
...History shows no example of a flourishing economy where the economy is in the hands of the state . . . Certain Catholics should stop toying with the idea of a spurious Marxism ... I just can't understand those Catholics who would eliminate the social classes in order to enhance their social figure and who would transform a justified limited state intervention into downright economic and political state monopoly just for the sake of having a society that has no economic differences...