Word: revolutionize
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Karl: Class consciousness is depressingly low. The near collapse of the global financial system signals the inevitable clash of capitalist nations. Time to publicly acknowledge it. What better way to begin a workers revolution than to name the dog after the Man himself?
Then came the Cuban Revolution and everything changed. It took multiple years and a few attempts but on Jan. 1, 1959 Fidel Castro and his band of guerillas successfully overthrew the government of President General Fulgencio Batista. The United States - which supported Castro by imposing a 1958 arms embargo against...
That's bad news for Thailand, whose export-oriented economy has already been battered by the global financial downturn. The continuing political crisis will only exacerbate Thailand's economic woes, as foreign countries issue travel warnings that could dissuade badly needed tourists in an industry that employs more than 3...
To be fair, the ANC is far from the worst example of a revolutionary movement lapsed into self-enrichment and autocracy. But because South Africa is the continent's biggest economy and natural leader, the ANC is a role model and has influence beyond South Africa's borders. That's...
South Africa can take comfort from the knowledge that even its greatest leader had trouble making the transition from revolutionary to democrat. In office, Mandela expressed admiration for autocrats like Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, and in his farewell speech to the ANC party conference in 1997 claimed South Africa...