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Born to parents who were early supporters of Hitler's National Socialist party, Haider never held national office, preferring to work behind the scenes while keeping his post as governor of the mostly rural southern province of Carinthia. In 1999 he led the rightist Freedom Party to 27% of the national vote, a result that triggered outrage in Europe and, ultimately, sanctions from the E.U. In last month's elections, the far right had its best showing since World War II, with support from nearly 50% of Austrians under age 30--an outcome that ensures that Haider's divisive legacy...
...would expect, the readings discuss the thoughts of those with a wide range of opinions and backgrounds, from proponents of race-based affirmative action to partisans of the class-based variety, from a “self described ‘forty-nine-year-old Black lesbian feminist socialist mother of two’” to a member of a “Black Nationalist church with a Pan Africanist philosophy.” While a couple of the readings dwell upon the figure of the wrong-headed, young, white man, unable to acknowledge his racial privilege...
...born in the province of Upper Austria, but he made his political career in the mostly rural southern province of Carinthia, a mountainous region bordering Italy and Slovenia dotted with turquoise lakes and snow-capped peaks. Both his parents had been early supporters of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, which ruled Austria after it was annexed to Nazi Germany in 1938. After the war his father was briefly penalized for his Nazi affiliation and his mother lost her job as a teacher; those bitter consequences, biographers say, helped shape their son's political views. Haider also inherited...
...first there was some disbelief that someone could say private and health care in the same sentence in a socialist country," says Roberta Lipson, CEO of Chindex International Inc., a company based in Bethesda, Md., that operates the United Family Healthcare network of private hospitals and clinics in China...
...head of the socialist trade union ABVV-FGTB, Rudy De Leeuw, said that three-quarters of union members were taking home between $1400 and $2200 per month. "If you have to pay your heating, your electricity, your loan payments, etc, there's not much left," he said. "And we are not even talking about the pensioners, the unemployed or the handicapped...