Word: socialistic
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...that there was no evidence of religious repression in the U.S.S.R. [May 24]. He ignores countless martyrs as well as the closing of thousands of churches. It is likewise incredible that he would take the availability of caviar at his meals as evidence of widespread prosperity in the "socialist paradise...
...restrained French Socialist intellectual and the affable American conservative are temperamental as well as ideological opposites. But they respect each other as politicians who scored almost simultaneous electoral triumphs, even though as late as 1980 both were widely regarded as has-beens. In addition, they have found common ground on some foreign policy issues. Both fear that if Britain presses the Falkland Islands war with Argentina to a total military victory, relations between Latin America and the Western allies could be poisoned for years. But Reagan apparently refrained from urging that view on Thatcher last week...
...tells you immediately he's a democratic socialist, committed to equality and democracy--principles he says he tries to apply to his activities both on and off campus. He took last year off to work for the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) in Boston, and now serves as the national organizational secretary of its youth section...
...enters the job market. He plans to work for the same causes, perhaps in the labor movement with a stop at law school along the way. He may also try his hand at electoral politics. "I'm not a purist in the sense that someone has to be a socialist to get my support--there aren't a whole lot of those officials around...I would be willing to work for any candidate I consider to be solidly progressive," he adds, citing Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass...
...zeal for scribbling led to journalism; he became a major socialist writer and editor, with a talent for extremist invective. "The national flag is for us a rag to plant on a dunghill," he wrote in the years before World War I when he was a strong internationalist. But Mussolini could believe almost anything passionately, and not long after a dispute led him to split with the Socialists, he established a new party, the Fascists, molding it along the lines of his own erratic and opportunistic temperament. As he described it, the party was "super-relativist," with only one guiding...