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Lakemi also said he would like the U.S. to create a "Soft Landing" for possible emerging Socialist regimes in Asia and act as a stabilizer by continuing military occupation in Asia...
...Warsaw Pact invasion of neighboring Czechoslovakia. And newly publicized Kremlin documents show that Honecker wanted to do the same against Poland. A letter from Honecker to Brezhnev on Nov. 26, 1980, denounced the Solidarity movement and appealed for a Warsaw Pact invasion to prevent "the death of Socialist Poland." Brezhnev, embroiled in Afghanistan, refused -- a decision that may have begun the unraveling of communism...
...Harvard Square we have our own version of such characters. We probably have all seen the Spartacists, that group of people who spend their time distributing such materials as The Socialist Worker and The Workers' Vanguard, bashing the usual targets--U.S. imperialism, Israel, white males. Communism has recently been the New England Patriots of ideologies, but that doesn't faze these activists. They press on, against all odds...
Perhaps I should explain the reason for the violence of my reaction. For 26 years I lived under a socialist system which claimed to be working towards that egalitarian society wherein each would give according to his or her abilities and take according to his or her needs. I refer of course to what is now called the failed ideology of communism, but was not long ago referred to as the red menace...
...that economies cannot indefinitely redistribute more wealth than they create. The emergence of the information society requires initiative and self-reliance rather than the setting of standardized tasks and centralized control. Moreover, the dislocations, including structural unemployment, of the "second industrial revolution" are not susceptible to the old quasi-socialist cures...