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Zyuganov says the party "recognizes a mixed economy, has renounced atheism and is ready for serious political dialogue to persuade voters." That certainly does not sound like Marxist-Leninism. But there is more. The party's official program looks back longingly to Yuri Andropov, a former kgb chief and Soviet party head from 1982 to 1984, crediting him somehow with establishing "freedom of speech and freedom of political associations." As for Stalin's purges and Gulag and the corruption of the Brezhnev era, they were "mistakes" to be avoided in the future, Zyuganov says...
Forget about social history. Though any post-Marxist pedant can wring out the usual insights about patriarchy and property in 17th century Dutch bourgeois life, none of them touch on the peculiar magic of Vermeer's images. Like Piero della Francesca, Vermeer was a highly inexpressive artist. He didn't even paint a self-portrait, as far as anyone knows. You come out of the exhibit knowing almost as little about Vermeer the man as when you went in. Biography, faint: Lived in Delft, a backwater. Son of a silkworker. A Papist in a Calvinist town. Quite successful nonetheless. Married...
...good news, however, is that nearly all those former communists, including Kwasniewski, appear to have abandoned their Marxist past. All reached power through free and democratic elections, they are pursuing policies of privatization and market economics, and they are clamoring for membership in both NATO and the European Union. "Poland will never go back from the road of reform and democracy," Kwasniewski pledged, adding that he would move ahead with market reforms and continue the Western-oriented foreign policy established by Walesa. "I am prepared to bet that within five years Poland will be a member of NATO with Kwasniewski...
...retired Bolivian general who witnessed the secret burial of Marxist revolutionary and '60s icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara revealed for the first time where the guerrilla leader is buried. General Mario Vargas Salinas told a journalist that Guevara's body was interred by bulldozer, along with those of five other executed guerrillas, under an airstrip at Vallegrande, a Bolivian mountain town 150 miles southwest of Santa Cruz, shortly after Guevara's summary execution by firing squad on Oct. 9, 1967. His final words, according to the general: "Shoot, coward! You are going to kill...
Havana was a riveting place to start. Castro is struggling to stay afloat without billions of dollars in Soviet subsidies each year, and without renouncing the core of Marxist economics and the state security police force that holds 1,200 to 2,000 political prisoners. Telling our group Mikhail Gorbachev's broad effort to open the Soviet Union "destroyed the socialist camp," Castro indicated that he prefers to liberalize the economy while suppressing political reform. "What we need in our country," he said, "is not an exchange of ideas but an exchange of goods, of technologies...