Word: socialistic
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...optimism was premature. By week's end fete had turned into fiasco and joie into tristesse for the Communists. A long-awaited summit meeting of Socialist, Communist and Radical Party leaders was abruptly halted by a strident, embarrassingly public dispute over the common program-the parties' joint campaign platform for the March 1978 elections...
...Fabre's Radicals. By far the most conservative of the three leftist parties, the Radicals draw much of their support from small shopkeepers and professionals, mainly in southwestern France. Although the Radicals command no more than 4% of the left vote, their support may be crucial to the Socialist and Communist parties if they are to get a working majority in the Assembly...
...Marxist purists, there is nothing quite so socially corrupting as that ultimate expression of status and self-indulgence, the automobile. If so, the Soviet Union's guardians of socialist virtue need to keep on their toes, because the chariots of decadence are popping up on roads all over the land. The U.S.S.R. is entering the auto age, and neither the state-owned companies that make cars nor the customers who buy them know quite what to make of the transition...
...hope well, and for a number of good reasons. We already have strong support from union members-about one in three voted Conservative in the past election, and many more are doing so now. Then, under a socialist government, they have suffered oppressive taxation and cuts in their living standards, and they have seen their unions become part of government. It's under the Conservatives that they will be better off and regain their independence. The question to be answered by the union leaders is: Will they accept the people's verdict in an election, or will they...
...their notion of a "Eurocommunism" that is independent of Moscow and ready to accept democratic forms, including elections. Not surprisingly, the French left's reaction has been sharp. The usually left-leaning daily Le Monde has gamely praised the "passionate challenge" raised by the New Philosophers. But the socialist Le Matin has flatly condemned their thinking as "elegant despair" and "a banal form of dandyism." A commentator in the pro-Socialist Nouvel Observateur blasted the New Philosophers as mere "disc jockeys of ideas...