Word: socialist
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...Although Bachelet’s socialist party supports market regulation, Brown says the speeches he has written for Bachelet have been consistent with his own values...
...leaders 'won the third world war' it is, quite simply, because Mikhail Gorbachev let them," Judt writes. And East Europeans reaching for freedom sought not "untrammeled economic competition" - Judt's view of the "American social model" - but the softer welfare economics of Western Europe, where "you could have your socialist cake and eat it in freedom." Europeans' growing estrangement from their political élites and weary indifference to the proven advantages of the European Union, Judt suggests, haven't altered that preference. "For a long time America had been another time - Europe's future," Judt writes. "Now it was just...
...When political activism does occur on campus it is wishy-washy and bland. Even the most radical elements of the student body, such as the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), are surprisingly tame by historical standards. Instead of appealing to socialist notions of equality in their quest for higher wages, they couched their stance in terms of cost of living and prevailing wage rates. And in lieu of occupying Mass. Hall, they sent workers’ children to Larry Summers’ house on Halloween to ask for money for their families—only to realize that...
...half-heartedly wish some enterprising young socialist would catalogue the supposed “evils” of the huge consulting and financial consortiums that employ University resources to recruit our top talent every year. This would at least provoke a bit of debate on campus about the best way to make use of our education. Yet this prospect is dubious because although the dominant ideology expressed on campus is liberal, the main mode of action is very much conservative...
Industry analysts say even Chvez, for all his provocative socialist rhetoric, realizes that the best way to achieve those results is to tap into the capital and technology of the multinationals. Says Luis Rojas, vice president of Venezuela's mining chamber: "He knows foreign investment is the only way Venezuela can boost its production and increase its reserves." While Chvez's September speech may have scared the mother lode out of mining execs, many believe it was meant more to appease the restless miners than to presage the ouster of the foreigners...