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Ideology & Ambitions. Moreover, in the 26 days between Cabinets, neither Moro nor Nenni had been able to heal the internal breaches that weakened their parties. Nenni, once a dogmatic Marxist and longtime partner of the Communists, in recent years has been leading his Socialist Party toward the social democracy espoused by Britain's Labor Party. But the way was bitterly blocked by the hard-line Marxist minority in the party's far left. In recent weeks Nenni, as party president, decided to crack the whip, managed to isolate his leftist opposition, even got control of Avanti, the party...
Seeds of Shortage. Czechoslovakia's economic troubles stem from the inflexible imposition of Marxist rules on the economy. Prewar Czechoslovakia was famous for sophisticated consumer goods, from Skoda automobiles to Bohemian glass; its living standard was among Europe's highest, and the country emerged from the war relatively undamaged. Then the Communists, who seized power in 1948, gradually switched much of the country's economy over to heavy industry...
...Raul is a dirty little Communist. Some day I am going to kill him." Emma, only mildly involved to begin with, met and married a Mexican, then moved out of the country. Next, the bearded Fidel's antireligious measures infuriated his mother. When Castro declared himself a true Marxist-Leninist, Juanita too threw up her hands in despair...
...resentment of Ben Bella's Defense Minister Houari Boumedienne, who after independence was won two years ago removed combat-hardened but unschooled officers from the army and replaced them with French-trained officers, many of whom had spent the war in exile. Chaabani was also opposed to the Marxist extremes of Ben Bella's regime, a sentiment he shared with former Party Bigwig Mohammed Khider...
...Poland's Oskar Lange, who lived in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s, took U.S. citizenship but renounced it after the war, and is now a deputy chairman of the Polish Council of State. In a mildly heretical mood, Lange declared last month: "Marxist political economics originated as a criticism of capitalism. It was not concerned with details of running an economy." While many of the Western economists call for increased planning, Lange's idea of vitalizing a Communist economy is to eliminate much central planning and introduce a full-scale market economy dominated by the profit...