Word: socialist
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...same fundamental problem. In a 1984 interview with the Italian Communist daily L'Unità, Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, phrased it this way: "Since the October Revolution [of 1917, which enthroned Soviet Marxism], more than 60 years have passed. How is it that many socialist countries have not been able to overtake capitalist ones in terms of development? What was it that did not work...
...ideas quickly brought him into contact with radical politics. Like many other Chinese students in France, he joined the French Communist Party, where he learned basic Marxist theory as well as the Internationale. (The Chinese Communist Party was not founded until 1921.) Later, as a member of the Chinese Socialist Youth League in France, Deng was assigned to mimeograph its journal, Red Light, a task he performed with such zeal that his fellow activists nicknamed him "Doctor of Mimeography...
...educators and artists to jail and banished hundreds of thousands more to the countryside. Indeed, for all his departures from standard Communist doctrine in the economic realm, Deng has never veered from orthodoxy when it came to maintaining the party's political primacy. China must always remain a "socialist democracy, people's democracy," he said in 1979, not a "bourgeois democracy, individualist democracy...
...next decade in obscurity, Rong was publicly rehabilitated in the late 1970s. He now lives in a comfortable Peking house and is tended by servants. Says he: "For a long time I have held the view that those methods that are used in capitalist enterprises can be used in socialist ones as well...
...Rumania and Poland. In 1982, Arafat accused Abu Nidal of being a hireling of MOSSAD, Israel's elite intelligence agency. That did not put an end to the fratricide: in April 1983, members of the Abu Nidal organization killed moderate P.L.O. Spokesman Issam Sartawi at a meeting of the Socialist International in Albufeira, Portugal...