Word: marxist
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...most immediate consequence of the conflict is the breakdown, at least for the moment, of Reagan's attempt to forge an alliance among nations in the Americas to fight Marxist influence in the hemisphere. Washington's decision to back Britain with sanctions as well as rhetoric has helped to divide the Americas once again along North-South lines. A sweeping alliance of left-and right-wing regimes, spanning the ideological spectrum from Cuba to Brazil, has rallied to support Argentina, miscasting it as a victim of colonialist subjugation. "The tilt toward Britain will destroy the coalition we must...
...liners within the Administration fear that the rupture of relations with Argentina may drive it into an alignment with Moscow. But most experts consider this unlikely, even if the regime of General Leopoldo Galtieri is overthrown. Capitalist and predominantly Roman Catholic, Argentina is not a likely place for a Marxist revolution, especially after years of violent government repression of leftists. Any regime that replaces Galtieri will almost certainly also be controlled by the anti-Communist military...
...somewhat retooled system occasionally can work. Skepticism of once-unassailable liberal solutions like divestiture has rightly set in. Harvard continues to own shares in Gulf, and Gulf continues to operate in Angola. But today that company is alive and well in Angola at the behest of the nation's Marxist government. That alone should cast some doubt on protesters' assertions that Gulf was hell-bent on maintaining the existing, repressive regime...
...20th century, socialism as a visionary ideal has appealed to such diverse religious thinkers as Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich and the Catholic clergy who advocate a quasi-Marxist "liberation theology" in Latin America. "Any serious Christian must be a socialist," Tillich once said. Yet those who are hostile to capitalism, Novak writes, tend to compare its flaws in practice with a utopian vision of socialism, ignoring the reality that socialism in practice tends to be economically incoherent and politically repressive. Democratic socialism is a doomed dream because it ignores the "necessary connection between economic liberty and political liberty." A democratic...
...sake of a bunch of banana salesmen may seem absurd and even comical. Mostly though, it is terrifying. Arbenz's policies--essentially the legalization of labor unions and a modest land reform that expropriated only unused fields, including much of United Fruits holdings--were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react immediately and decisively against any perceived danger to the capitalist status...