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West is likewise attempting to push a distinctly socialist agenda. He sees a solution to the Black-Jewish separation in some version of a fundamentalist common religion that combines the Jewish and Christian faiths. In Jews and Blacks, he says to Lerner: "Both of our traditions place a fundamental stress on what I call non-market values...I'm calling for a dialogue about the relative failure or success of the U.S. experiment in democracy...
...Chinese leaders know that the Tibetan issue is becoming critical; today in Tibet Cultural Revolution methods have returned and tired socialist pleas absent from China are more vociferous than ever. If the Tibetans escalate their fight in a lastchance response (and here timing in post-Deng China would be critical), the effects would easily spill into neighboring regions. The very stability that China has been emphasizing over the past two years will unravel. Remember: martial law was imposed on Tibet three months before Tiananmen Square...
FATHER GREG (LINUS ROACHE), the young priest at a Catholic parish in Liverpool, is handsome, theologically conservative--and gay. His boss, Father Matthew (Tom Wilkinson), spouts socialist dogma and has sex with his live-in housekeeper. The husband of the parish's hardest-working volunteer forces sex on their daughter. The local bishop is a ward heeler in a cassock...
...Then you survived Stalin, watched the utopian fantasies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat go into sclerosis in the 1960s and '70s, and saw the imperium collapse in the '80s. Today the yellow arches of McDonald's shed their plastic gleam on Red Square, and gangsterism rules instead of socialist virtue. You know the Nazis inflicted incalculable damage on your nation, with the intent to obliterate all traces of "Slavic culture" from the earth. Why, in this time of collapsed dreams and national humiliation, should you listen to Germans preaching about restitution...
...Europe. Occasionally swapping his trademark fatigues for a dark blue suit and spotted tie, he criticized "blind and savage market laws" at the world-poverty summit in Copenhagen, told UNESCO in Paris that the U.S. blockade of Cuba was "criminal" and basked in the lavish praise of outgoing Socialist French President Francois Mitterrand and his wife Danielle. Castro also played tourist. "My strongest impression?" he told reporters. "Chablis wine...