Word: redistributionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaving the simplistic fruit intact. In an article in the March, 1975 Commentary Moynihan classed the underdeveloped nations as a true third force in world politics: They were democratic socialist, in line with a West European colonial experience. He described these nations as by and large anti-American and redistributionist (rather than production-oriented, since he says socialism cannot be productive. Here Moynihan forgets the Soviet Union, which is unusual if only because it seems to dominate all his other thoughts). But these nations, according to the early Moynihan, could be wooed away from authoritarianism. Independence from Moscow and Peking...