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...farmers have committed suicide in the barren, drought-stricken land outside the metropolis. For some, despair has turned to anger at the shiny city on the horizon, and their forsaken fields are now a front line in a little-noticed war between security forces and an estimated 10,000 Marxist guerrillas. In a land-mine attack a few hours' drive north of Hyderabad three days before Bush arrived, the Naxals (who take their name from a 1967 rebellion in the town of Naxalbari) killed almost 30 government supporters returning from an antirebel rally. Today, there is old India...
This is not about a belated Marxist revolution (don’t worry Dad, I root for free markets), but the expression of the undeniable fact that our society makes qualitative judgments based on material possessions. Some years ago, several teenagers committed murder to get hold of Nike Jordan sneakers, just like many have been killed in iPod-related assaults. This is not even about Professor John K. Galbraith’s argument on advertisements creating mirages of brand loyalty, but about our social motto of “you are what you own.” Food obsessions...
...notes, remains underappreciated among the French. They certainly know Lévy, whose bronzed, leonine visage is familiar from talk shows and gossip columns. "BHL," as he is known at home, exploded onto the literary scene at age 28 with Barbarism with a Human Face, in which he excoriated Marxist intellectuals for complicity in communist horrors. In 30-odd books since then, he has remained provocative and, unusually for a French thinker, pro-American. "I have been coming to the U.S. for 40 years," says Lévy, 57, from an airport lounge in Washington, amid a punishingly long book...
...though, was French Prime Minister Leon Blum’s remarks to a visiting German minister in 1936. While talking to the ambassador of an ideology that would, in the near future, invade his country and butcher millions of his coreligionists he said: “I am a Marxist and a Jew, but we cannot achieve anything if we treat ideological barriers as insurmountable...
...status quo might have stood even longer than it did, Gaddis argues, but along came Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev, all prepared to think anew. By that time, thanks to the manifest failures of the Marxist system, so were a lot of other people. More than the disposition of forces, victory in the war of ideas was crucial to ending the cold war. When the Berlin Wall finally fell, communism was so discredited that not even communists believed in it anymore...