Word: socialiste
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...first it seemed clear-cut: when a tape recorder caught Hungary's Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány saying his party had "lied morning, evening and night" about the state of the economy to win re-election in April, protests - many of them violent - broke out across the country. Commentators around Europe attributed the eruption to the passion of outraged [an error occurred while processing this directive] citizens of a former dictatorship who expected more from their elected leaders. But according to Gyurcsány's supporters, there's a more partisan root to the clashes as the country...
...Chávez is also a polarizing figure at home. Although his approval ratings are in the high 50s, there is growing impatience with the country's stubborn unemployment and violent crime. Teodoro Petkoff, an erstwhile socialist leader who is a campaign strategist for Chávez's main opponent in the December presidential election, Manuel Rosales, says Chávez's "21st century socialism" is only a short-term fix. "The real fight against poverty is a fight against unemployment," Petkoff says. Others complain that Chávez is a Castro wannabe who has subverted Venezuela's democratic institutions, especially the courts...
...Washington-backed capitalist reforms in Latin America, I no longer think a third way between capitalism and socialism is possible. Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ - who I think was the first socialist - only socialism can really create a genuine society...
...Japan Pop: From Basho to Banana,†teaches anime and manga, alongside other eclectic elements of Japanese popular culture. FC 72, “Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika,†taught by well-liked professor Svetlana Boym, offers Revolution-era avant-garde art, socialist realist works (including Eisenstein and the cinematic montage school), and other decidedly cool Russian stuff.Our top pick is FC 76, “Nazi Cinema: Fantasy Production in the Third Reich,†taught by the world’s reigning authority on the subject, German department chair Eric Rentschler...
...adviser to another Socialist challenger, former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, strikes a similar note. "What the polls measure is popularity, not competence," he says. "Socialists have a furious love of debate, and she's not debating. What does she think about debt, about foreign policy, about economic governance? You've got to talk about this stuff. And you can't talk to party activists like you do to public opinion." Oh no? Royal thinks she can. She promises a bottom-up approach to an electorate disenchanted with France's élitist and sclerotic political culture. She stays away from...