Word: marxisms
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...Pipes, should realize the first, most obvious, reason why Ronald Reagan should be denied the presidency: in a world one decision away from nuclear conflagration, only the coolest of heads, the sanest of men, should be allowed to command our military. Obsessed with fears of Russian imperialism and spreading Marxism, neither Reagan nor his likely advisers fit that description. And even if the mushroom clouds never appear on the horizon, their "hard-nosed" approach to diplomacy seems likely to maintain and extend America's relationships with the "free world's" worst military dictators and tyrants...
...Ajax and other domestic topics. The talk throughout is startlingly apolitical--mostly gossip about who's sleeping with whom, who's breaking up with whom. They are afraid of the Trilateral Commission; they don't think too much of Jimmy Carter--nothing too deep, no trace, for example, of Marxism. When they are busted for killing a deer (they are innocent), each character recites a list of his/her previous arrests--in '70, '72--and it all sounds so far away, so remote from anything they're thinking or feeling now. The closing credits play over Polaroid snapshots...
...very least a personal triumph for Pinochet, who had tailored the new constitution to his own specifications. The charter outlaws doctrines "founded in class struggle" (a code phrase for Marxism) and commits Chile to a free-market economy. And though it specifies a return to democracy, the pace it mandates is leisurely enough to keep Pinochet in office until 1989-and possibly eight more years after that-when open presidential elections must finally be held...
...years, only those encumbered by ignorance or a wistfully doctrinaire need to believe have invested either hope or credibility in the Workers' Paradise as it has taken shape in the world. Many, it is true, are still attracted by the ideals of Marxism-by its promise of egalitarianism and social justice. The appeal is especially forceful in the Third World, where capitalism is usually implicated emotionally with colonialism and where some form of socialism seems the surest road to justice. But on the whole, those farthest away from the thwarting and soul-wrecking little details of the Workers...
...operating procedures of Marxist states usually follow a depressing logic. Marxism, with its incomparably oafish legerdemain, softens up the sanity by explaining that failure is success, and otherwise fulfilling George Orwell's expectations. The revolutionary "vanguard" clearing the way for the dictatorship of the proletariat develops into a "New Class" of privileged party officials and bureaucrats. The system runs by what the Soviets call blat- influence, clout, corruption. A new minority rule sets in. If it is not the dark, satanic will of Stalin, it has little to do with workers' wishes either. Although members of the ruling...