Word: marxist
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That thud heard last week was the sound of Europe's last Marxist dictatorship landing on the trash heap of history. Following three days of student riots in Tirana, Albanian President Ramiz Alia summoned leaders of the demonstrations to his palace. Alia then abruptly canceled the Communists' 44-year monopoly on politics. He announced that henceforth rival parties will be permitted in the interest of "further democratization...
Gorbachev comes across as a brilliant bumpkin from cossack country who could not have made it without Raisa, a doctor of Marxist theory and, in the Sheehy version, the real "prophet of perestroika." How two devout party members could have climbed to the top of the Communist apparatus while nurturing heretical ideas is the subject that gives the author her central thesis of how Gorbachev operates...
...egalitarian society at home or move across the Atlantic to join a new nation. The 20th century has seen the triumph of America -- if by America one means democratic pluralism. America has won not only the ideological battle but the cold war as well. Socialism, certainly in its Soviet Marxist incarnation, has failed. The Soviet Union retains large military forces, but it is no longer a superpower; in fact, it finds itself fighting for its very survival...
Like many Latin American writers, Paz has political credentials. He served for a time as Mexico's ambassador to India but resigned in 1968 to protest the authorities' killing of students during an antigovernment demonstration. In the 1930s Paz was a Marxist. Today communist holdouts regard him as a conservative largely because he has become a critic of "simplistic and simplifying ideologies of the left." His equally sharp disapproval of the rigid right has put him at the lonely center, where his poetry has taken on its deeply personal and moral tone...
Many impoverished, debt-ridden Third World countries are only just beginning to make their way along the only path forward -- the free market, painful and politically explosive though that is. Again, why should the U.S. care? Even though Marxist revolutionaries and guerrillas still carry on their archaic battles in many places, the danger of such countries' "going communist" is sharply diminished. But the developed world needs Third World countries as markets. Also, economic turmoil would put heavy pressures on the U.S. and other Western nations, not least through growing streams of emigrants...