Word: marxisms
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...Philosophers movement were powerfully impressed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's voluminous account, published in the mid-1970s, of the appalling Soviet Gulag camps for political prisoners. The period brought the spectacle of Communist Leader Pol Pot's genocide of perhaps 3 million Cambodians. Writer Bernard-Henri Levy blamed Marxism for Communist atrocities, and the charge resonated among French thinkers. Although their disillusionment was intellectual, it helped set the stage for Europe's economic shift half a decade later...
...opposition, California Democrat Alan Cranston criticized the Saudis for their unwillingness to make peace with Israel and for subsidizing "terrorists," meaning Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Though he acknowledged that Washington and Riyadh have some mutual interests, Cranston argued, "The Saudi princes don't pump oil or resist Marxism just to do us a favor. They'd do it anyway...
...difficult to see why the Sandinistas are so anxious to keep a tight rein on Obando. At a May Day Mass last week, the Cardinal used his homily to defend the right to strike, which was among the guarantees suspended in October. He warned sternly that "Marxism does not have the solution for the working class." In the past Obando has attacked Nicaragua's unpopular universal military draft and urged young men to enter seminaries as a way of avoiding it. He has urged the government to negotiate with the contra rebels and declined to condemn the Reagan Administration...
Ortega is known as the directorate's pragmatist. Partly because he was willing to negotiate with the bourgeoisie during the tense days of the Terceristas, he is sometimes considered more moderate than other members of the directorate. His moderation, however, is reportedly challenged by the hard-line Marxism of Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez. Still, says one Sandinista official, Ortega "doesn't pull any punches...
...justifying further internal repression by the regime and heightening tensions all through the region. Yet Western countries have felt compelled in the past to protect their national interests by interfering with foreign governments. Communist regimes do it almost by definition. Unquestionably, the Sandinistas in pursuit of Soviet-style Marxism pose a genuine threat to the somewhat fragile democracies of neighboring countries. Potentially more threatening is the danger to U.S. security if Nicaragua becomes a base from which Soviet submarines and bombers can prowl vital sea-lanes and America's coasts...