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...turns out, refusal ran in his family. Gauguin's maternal grandmother, Flora Tristan, was a spiritual fugitive of another kind, a pre-Marxist socialist visionary who traveled across provincial France in the 1840s, preaching a gospel of class justice and the liberation of women. In The Way to Paradise (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 373 pages) Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, onetime presidential hopeful and perennial Nobel candidate, lightly fictionalizes their stories in alternating chapters, portraits of two literally kindred souls in revolt against the horsewhips and hypocrisy of the bourgeois order. Both of them rejected the world as they found...
...Montreal hospital bed. So he thunders on about the long-ago killing of "200 million" American natives by European armies--"The greatest holocaust in history happened right here"--and snipes that his businessman son (Stephane Rousseau) "is a puritanical capitalist, while I am a sensual socialist." If Fox News had a left-wing channel in Quebec, Remy would be its Sean Hannity...
...Modern Indians regard Nehru with more ambivalence. As novelist Shashi Tharoor points out in his new biography, Nehru: The Invention of India, the architect of modern India turned his country into a democracy and an industrial giant but also shackled it to a heavily regulated socialist economy. If Nehru managed to fuse a disparate jumble of regions and principalities into a united nation, he also bequeathed India its most serious political problem, the insurgency in Kashmir. Although Tharoor's biography lacks the exhaustiveness and depth of some of its predecessors, its attitude is perfect for the times. Writes Tharoor, "What...
...power between the main nationalist and socialist parties, to the chagrin of Madrid, which is struggling to contain more militant separatism in the Basque region. Not So Dirty, After All CZECH REPUBLIC Officials announced that contrary to earlier reports, radioactive material seized in a police sting was not weapons-grade, nor was it suitable for making a dirty bomb. Two Slovaks were arrested on Nov. 14 in the eastern city of Brno after allegedly trying to sell to an undercover agent 3 kg of what appeared to be nuclear fuel rods from the former Soviet Union...
...Lanka still has a lot of catching up to do. In 1977 it became the first South Asian country to dismantle its socialist economy. Foreign investment was welcomed, and from 1977-84 the economy grew by 6% a year. But in July 1983, long-simmering tension between the nation's Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority led to violent anti-Tamil riots, and the country plunged into civil war. By 1987, Sri Lanka's growth rate had halved. Tourism and tea exports remained relatively strong, and in the 1990s, Sri Lankans fancied that the country's economy had learned...