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...Marxist-Leninist states, egalitarianism is an empty slogan and socialist rule has become more a dictatorship of praetorians than of the proletariat. In a famous 1957 diatribe, Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas railed against the privileges accorded a "new class" of Communists?party hierarchs, ranking bureaucrats, managers of state enterprises, and superstars in the arts and sports...
...case, perhaps, but a telling one. The defiant students who marched behind antiwar banners, experimented with drugs and challenged their parents' values during the shake-'em-up days of the 1960s are young adults today. Many of them, and a lot more of their classmates who never chanted a slogan or smoked a joint, are channeling their talents into the corporate world. As they rise in company ranks, these junior executives are presenting some unusual challenges to their bosses, who have had to accommodate new life-styles and non-negotiable demands for increased personal attention, intensive career planning, openness with...
This explains why Zionists molded themselves according to the slogan "The nation without a land--back to its homeland without a population." Therefore they were welcomed by the prominent Arab leader Emir Faisal, King of Iraq, who signed a cooperation treaty in 1919 with Chaim Weizman, who later became the first president of Israel...
...toothache, see a dentist; if it's a pain in your taxes, come to me." With that crude but compelling slogan, Mogens Glistrup, Denmark's premier tax-dodge artist and maverick politician, not only made himself a millionaire but also built the country's second largest party, which now holds 26 of the 179 seats in parliament. Last week, after a 3½-year trial, a Copenhagen court found him guilty on a host of charges involving fraud and tax evasion and directed him to pay $880,000 in fines and back taxes. Glistrup's chief...
...people with a common language, customs and culture should "naturally" form a nation-state. That conviction has been nourished by a sudden, popular expansion of French pride, in which Quebec became, if not a political state, most certainly a state of mind. It is summarized in a provincial-government slogan: "De plus en plus en Québec, c 'est en français que ça se passe " (More and more in Quebec, it's in French that things are happening). Quebec has sprouted dozens of novelists, playwrights and chansonniers who sing their culture's praises?and bewail their unhappy history...