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...then going off to Caracas to sell them the antidote." The most successful modern practitioners of this ploy seem to be the fleet-footed French, who first sold the Exocet antiship missile to Peru's leftist dictatorship in 1973, then leaked the news to neighboring Chile, whose rightist leaders became so jittery that they too bought the missile...
...instead tried to create a vision of society which was small scale, often rural, and largely anarchic. In a society and economy as interdependent and complex as U.S. society is such a social program is hopelessly utopian--as utopian as similar plans put forth by Leftist anarchists and Rightist libertarians--and could not be achieved. In America, revolutionary opposition to capitalism often takes on a largely reactionary content, a desire to return to a simpler past rather than advance into an uncertain future. So, capitalism progresses while oppositions to it sporadically break out--but these oppositions posit a chance...
...Democrat Party, which headed the opposition to Thailand's military rule for three decades, led with 72 seats. Party Leader Seni Pramoj, while conceding that he "was heading straight for trouble," immediately announced that he would try to form a coalition with three or four other moderate and rightist parties. A likely coalition member is the right-wing Thai Nation Party, headed by Pramarn Adireksarn, 60, a retired major general and a prominent businessman. Late last week Seni said that he had gained 119 seats with the help of other parties, enough to form a minority government. Pramarn...
Blessed with a rightist government and a conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy, Portugal before the April revolution was one of the least libidinous countries in Europe. Striptease shows, topless dancers, dirty books and X-rated movies were, legally, at least, not allowed into the country. At the most, an occasional street vendor would risk arrest by the morals squad and peddle a few bootlegged copies of Playboy or some other forbidden girlie import. The morals squad still exists, but since the April revolution, the risk has gone out of eroticism. In fact, one of the curious consequences of the coup that...
...right. He asks how can the leftist oppose war, the draft, and anti-abortion laws on the grounds of individual liberty and an abhorrence of violence, while at the same time ignoring property rights in supporting the violence of government economic control and heavy taxation? And how can the rightist support property rights and the free market on grounds of individual liberty and voluntarism while at the same time favoring the compulsion of war, the draft, and victimless crime laws...