Word: socialists
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...deeply suspicious of it all the same. It's a reason he's been preoccupied lately by the brief heyday of the Soviet avant-garde in the years right after the October Revolution, before Stalin put his very big foot down and imposed the rule of socialist orthodoxy in all artistic realms. A short episode of utopianism that ended in its own flood of blue tears, those years seem to epitomize for him the absurdity and paradox of politics...
...embrace my radical solution, I decided to be the first columnist to solicit product placement. This would also allow me to show my bosses just how valuable I am - in cold, hard cash. If I'm pulling in high-end cars and watchmakers and Joe Klein has nothing but socialist beard trimmers, I think we know who's going to survive the next round of layoffs...
...This bill is serving an archaic fairy tale up to artists, but in reality is an authoritarian sleight of hand," says Socialist legislator Christian Paul, who adds that the music and film industry has to face the reality of the Web today. "It's a bad text with lots of problems, and which opposes performers and Internet users," says Patrick Bloche, spokesman for Socialist Party legislators in parliament...
...education, compensation for victims of the Franco regime - it is unlikely that the conservative PP would have reached a compromise with the administration. But the ferocity of their protests suggested to many that more than ideological differences were in play. "Crispacíon was a tactical strategy," says former Socialist spokesman Diego López Garrido, today a deputy in the European parliament. "The PP used it to try and undermine the government, and win the next elections. It didn't work." (See pictures of Spain...
After losing the 2008 elections, several prominent PP insiders - including Angel Acebes, who was Interior Minister at the time of the attacks and served as Secretary General in the four years that followed - resigned their offices, and the acrimony began to dissipate. And the Socialist measures that the opposition found so objectionable a few years ago? "All those changes - the law against domestic violence, gay marriage - the majority of Spaniards have accepted them," says Savater...