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...titled "A Word to the People," a blistering plea to save the Soviet Union from Gorbachev's reforms. The letter, which Prokhanov wrote, marked the birth of the union between Communists and nationalists that some fear will transform Zyuganov's coalition into a Russian version of Hitler's National Socialist party. It also foreshadowed the failed coup by party hard-liners the following month. Although he proudly calls himself a "leading ideologist" of the attempt, Zyuganov was on vacation when it happened and he did not return to Moscow until it was over...
...assured for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). On Monday a leftist coalition called the National Front moved to keep the BJP from power, and gained an endorsement from the Congress Party. The soundly defeated Congress Party offered support to the Front, a loose coalition of socialist, communist and low-caste parties, but has yet to actually join up. With 530 of the 537 parliamentary seats accounted for, no one party has a majority in the lower house, and a coalition government must form. The President, Shankar Dayal Sharma is planning to wait a week to ask a party...
...last time I checked, subscriptions to The Socialist Worker weren't booming in Harvard Square. Professor Harvey C. Mansfield '53 was still talking about grade inflation...
...side, you have a rigid socialist regime with a failing centrally-planned economy and a totalitarian iron hand manipulating the whole nation at will; on the other side, you have an open capitalist regime, a successful free market economy and a democratic system guaranteeing people's rights and involvement in politics. Above all, shall we remember, this gap has been created in a mere span of 40 years, even less than one generation's lifetime! And yet, the dark shadow of a second Korean War, a disaster which could possibly wipe out the gap by just destroying everything, is always...
...that time he was also teaching photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago, a transplanted version of the Bauhaus, the great German laboratory of art and design that was shuttered by the Nazis. But the original Bauhaus aim of placing art in the service of socialist ideals didn't survive the trip to Chicago, because after 15 years of Depression and war, American artists were wary of politics. What they wanted was the luxury of a private moment and the refuge of a private space where they could lock out the sinister noise of history. Among photographers, that meant...