Word: marxisms
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...title of the first comprehensive theological teaching of Benedict's papacy suggests, there is little grist for those looking for controversy or doctrinal bombshells. Yes, the Pope confronts modern sexuality, declaring that "'sex' has become a commodity," and even takes a parting slap at Marxism in his defense of a Christian vision of good works. But the message is ultimately a clear and simple call for Christian love and charity. Popes typically use their first encyclicals, the most authoritative form of Church writing, to set the tone for their reign rather than to spark debate or overhaul Catholic teachings. With...
...that if "Deng's bold experiments" succeed, "Communists everywhere, notably in the Third World, would see an alternative to the failures of Soviet Marxism." Yet you say that "Deng's goal is to lift per capita income to $800 by the year 2000." This is less than 20% of per capita income in the U.S.S.R. today and less than 10% of that in some East European countries. Soviet-style Marxism is a failure only by Western standards. Compared with the mess that China is in after 35 years under Deng and his associates, the Soviet Union is Nirvana. Thomas...
...become a sales trainee. The son, more mole than firebrand, slowly undermined that plan and found his way to Cambridge, first as an army recruit sent to learn Russian, then as a full-time student. There he discovered, and was seduced by, the very class of society that Marxism had taught him to hate: socially adept, physically graceful and intellectually poised aristocrats. Recalls Frayn: "I was immensely charmed by their sense of style, maybe a little overimpressed by their coolness and insouciance. I did not think I could become one, but they fascinated...
...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...
...came into office after waging a campaign against summitry and all it stood for. He wanted the U.S. to negotiate less and compete more. He devoted much of his first term to denouncing the Soviets for their misdeeds, calling on the free world to mount a "crusade" to cast Marxism-Leninism onto the ash heap of history, punishing Moscow's expansionism through a global counterattack on its clients, which became known as the Reagan Doctrine, and unveiling a Strategic Defense Initiative that would, at least as he conceived it, disarm the Evil Empire by dint of Yankee ingenuity...