Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still had a proposal to socialize medicine on his books. The temptation was too great to resist: in the constituencies a vote against Mollet on the budget would not be a vote against the Algerian war (which most Deputies favor) but a vote against high taxes and against Socialist experiments...
...Fronts. Admitting that his "understanding with the Catholic Church" found no precedent in any other socialist state, or even "in such capitalist countries as the U.S. and France," Gomulka insisted that the kind of socialism he envisaged for Poland would in the long run "depend on the shaping of relations between the People's State and the church." Nevertheless the guiding power on Gomulka's road would be a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship of the proletariat. Inside the party he promised "full freedom of speech," but outside no party member (and presumably no private person) would have the right...
...what has leaked out of Mao's speech, the 63-year-old Chinese ruler, in a long, theoretical harangue to 800 ideological commandos, denied two fundamental propositions of Soviet ideology: 1) that even in a Communist state the class struggle must continue until the day when a completely Socialist society is established (Stalin, justifying his bloody purges in the '30s, said that the struggle must in fact get increasingly violent, as enemies of the people grow more desperate); 2) that there can be no real conflict in a Communist state between the people and their rulers, since...
...support from the government. The Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, who controls a pivotal 19 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, found himself losing control of his Social Democratic Party to young firebrands who wanted the Social Democrats to pull out of the government and rejoin the Red-tainted Socialist Party of Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni...
Typically, in the industrial city of Nowo Huta, originally planned as a model Socialist town without a house of worship, the government has now permitted a church to be begun. Everywhere the monotony of dusty village life is once again relieved by bright processions and flower-banked shrines on religious holidays. "It's good for the heart as well as the soul," said a young peasant woman near Lowicz last week, winding a chain of paper roses around a huge roadside cross. A fortnight ago, at the annual renewal of national vows to the Madonna of Czestochowa...