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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throughout 1948 has had the greatest worldwide influence (for good or evil, according to one's point of view) is undoubtedly Joseph Stalin...
Through all this historical process, everything is relative -meaning that although a slave-owning economy is viewed as deplorable today, it was once, when it had just succeeded the primitive communal system, a "step forward." In other words, there is no "eternal justice." Men's ideas, their point of view (their "consciousness"), are reflections of these contradictions, of these struggling, contending forces, and of their eruptions into new things. Says Stalin: "The material life of society . . . is primary, and its spiritual life secondary, derivative." An example (not Stalin's): in the U.S. frontier days...
...equation, as Historicus frames it, is: "Revolution occurs where the Communist command concentrates superiority of forces at a point on the Capitalist front where the bourgeoisie can be isolated and overwhelmed. In other words, 'revolutionary crises' do not have to be waited for; they can to some extent be organized...
...this point, another woman Diet member, Miss Toshi Matsuo, wandered into view. Izumiyama, his eyes lighting on Miss Matsuo, straightened, smiled, politely offered to shake hands. "But instead of then freeing my hand," Miss Matsuo exclaimed, "he held it tight and pulled me." Miss Matsuo was saved by a bell summoning her and other Diet members, drunk or sober, to the night session, which convened at 8:47 p.m.* The Finance Minister, however, did not respond. He stretched out on a sofa in the corridor, and lay there, face up, eyes closed...
...they concluded, to do something about the Costa Rican exiles who had been training on Nicaraguan soil for a comeback. By allowing their leader, ex-President Rafael CalderÓn Guardia, to attack, Tacho set up several interesting possibilities. If discontent with the Figueres regime had reached the boiling point, an overnight coup might bring Calderon to power. If the attempt failed, Tacho could rid himself of his embarrassing guests. If the Caribbean Legion intervened to help Figueres, Tacho would have a chance to turn loose his well-trained Guardia National on those sworn enemies...