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...Forget Piotr. Even so, Gierek was anxious to gain the party's mandate for his reformist leadership before the first anniversary of the riots. As Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other East bloc party leaders looked on in the ornate Palace of Culture and Science, whose facade was decorated with a seven-story portrait of Lenin, Gierek made a strong plea to Poles for cooperation. "Our supreme aim," he declared, "is the systematic improvement of living standards"-including at least one free Saturday per month for all vvorkers. He called too for a greater sense of unity...
...Medvedev would have probably disappeared without a trace behind the walls of Lubianka prison. It is a measure of progress that Medvedev had only to endure obscene absurdities. Committees of psychiatrists tried to discredit his mind with such limp diagnoses as "poor adaptation to the social environment," and "obsessive reformist delusions." Such labels, as the Medvedevs note, could have also been pasted on Marx and Lenin...
...completely democratic form of socialism," rejecting both socialist bureaucracies and welfare statism. It criticized the classic errors of the New Left: extreme sectarianism, the cult of the Third World, persecution of people for not devoting all of their time to the movement, and downgrading of community action as somehow reformist...
...Church Left. This is, in fact, they key problem with the book. Hitchcock ends up using the words "liberal," "radical," "progressive" and "reformer" almost interchangeably. Despite this key weakness, many of Hitchcock's criticisms are very much to the point. Indeed, a truly "radical" critique of the Church reformist movement could be built quite easily upon Hitchcock's evidence...
Most of the nationalist and reformist attitudes which separate Alba from the Berkeley student result from the position of the Mexican student in an economically developing nation. Within Mexico City, the educational center of the country, there are close to 200,000 students, of which 90,000 attend UNAM and 60,000 attend IPN. Although those attending the IPN are somewhat poorer than those in UNAM, most students are middle class in a country where the middle class is still very small. In the past 20 years the middle class has benefited most from Mexico's industrial growth. Students have...