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Lastly, I laughed out loud when you claimed that the Russian people "won" the Cold War by utilizing "Marxist theory." If anything, they were victims of it. By risking their lives during the protests against the Communist coup members, the Russian people were rejecting Marxism in practice. They were tired of religious oppression, of the arrogant, elitist Communist party and of the specter of the return of Stalinism...
With its bases in the Marxist philosophy repudiated by the U.S. victory in the Cold War, such a theory--that in any society there are a few people on top whose interests and benefit lie in their ability to fool the many on the bottom into supporting them--might well be spurned by the State Department...
...Susan Eisenhower, among others, might argue that America didn't win the Cold War (there was no invasion, no diplomatic crisis, no external threat that brought down the Soviet Union). The Russian people won it, with Marxist theory. It was ordinary Russian citizens along with renegade Russian soldiers who surrounded Boris Yeltsin on a hijacked tank in front of the Bely Dom during the August coup seven years ago. The many on the bottom of Soviet society refused to be fooled any longer into supporting...
Perhaps the State Department could use a little basic Marxist theory. It might be better than whatever theory underpins their present actions, which so effectively create an impression of an American nation inimical to other entire nations and ethnic and religious groups. Whatever that theory is, it seems to bear a disturbing resemblance to another, rather more distasteful theory that also employed totalitarianism in the early part of this century: National Socialism...
Pinochet held power in Chile for 17 years after effecting a coup of Salvador Allende's Marxist government on Sept. 11, 1973. Thousands of people died and disappeared during Pinochet's rule...