Word: socialism
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From the October 1987 mass arrest, 17 detainees still remain in detention. Among them is a close friend and colleague, Dr. Nasir Hashim, a graduate of Cornell University and an associate professor in Social and Preventive Medicine at the National University of Malaysia. We hope that you will continue to ask for the release of Nasir and the remaining detainees...
Although released from detention, I am still under restriction orders which restrict my mobility and prevent my particpation in social and political activities and organizations...
...current crisis of the left stems from the brutal fact that the idea of socialism is dead (its obituary is being written even in China and Russia) and the agenda of social democracy is exhausted. In Britain, Israel and the U.S., the social-democratic party has completed its historic and heroic task of creating the structure of the modern welfare state. Its agenda enacted, the party has run out of energy and ideas. Consequently, the party of the right, with its claim on the nationalist idea and all its attendant emotional and political power, has been handed the game almost...
Parties of the left that plausibly present themselves as nationalist parties can survive, even flourish. Those that cannot, flounder. American Democrats began absorbing that lesson four years ago. Having sought vainly for some new, galvanizing social vision in the New Deal-Fair Deal-New Frontier tradition, and having found that mere nostalgic invocation of the past does not work, they figured they had better retake the flag...
After Dukakis, the Democrats have only two avenues to recovery. They can present a rethought social-democratic vision that challenges the nationalist party by presenting an alternative to it. Or they can try to seize the nationalist issue themselves. Failing that, they have one hope left. They can pray for a depression...