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...Bernardo Bertolucci assembled an all-star cast (Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Stefania Sandrelli) for a history of 20th century Italy that played like a Marxist Gone With the Wind. Now the full version -- all 5 hr. 11 min. -- is premiering in the U.S. Don't miss the grandest folly of a great director...
Remember those predictions that Fidel Castro's regime was on the verge of collapse? White House experts have ruefully concluded that after 32 years in control, the old dictator still has staying power. While publicly vowing to maintain Marxist purity, Castro has allowed a number of perestroika-style reforms in the Cuban economy. Among them: linking farm-worker pay to the amount workers produce. The island has signed a $350 million trade deal with Mexico and may reap secondhand benefits when that country completes a long- debated free-trade agreement with...
...doubt remained that orthodoxy was fighting back, it was dispelled by the views aired at an angry Jan. 31 party plenum. Speeches by Central Committee members roundly knocked perestroika as a policy gone astray, attacked freedom of the press and condemned the Kremlin leadership's abandonment of Marxist principles in favor of "bourgeois morality." These Communists made it plain they were not about to give way to a multiparty system. The entire tone of the gathering suggested a council of war, and there were no recorded disagreements by Mikhail Gorbachev. A few days later, the Soviet President took...
Historians have proposed that this millenarian kingdom come is the ultimate (but unacknowledged) source of that now discredited Marxist paradise, the withering away of the state. Faith in Jesus' Second Coming has persisted through history, even though predictions about its timing have inevitably proved premature. The first Christians thought he would return to earth within their lifetime. As the Goths decimated imperial legions in the 4th century, St. Ambrose of Milan saw the Antichrist among the pagan invaders and proclaimed that the end of the world was nigh. A 12th century Cistercian abbot, Joachim of Flora, was quite precise...
Today, even where critics of the peace movement see opportunistic splinter groups, defenders see the beginnings of an inclusive coalition. The fact is that Greenpeace, the Marxist Leninist party, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and the Spartacist Youth League all made appearances at the Common...