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Such rhetoric, such icons, in most cases are the tools of control and indoctrination: Khadafy's Green Book and omnipresent portrait, the lying broadcasts and boasts of an Amin or a Radio Moscow, the ridiculous and extravagant nonsense of carefully lettered signs, declaring the socialist progress that has been visited on Kabul. But in a choice few places, and Nicaragua is one, they are the reflection--not the source, the reflection-of something very different. Of unity, not control; of the notion that here is something right and proper that most people can and do support, in the general...
Which is excuse enough--if an excuse is needed--for the new, slogan-filled way that Nicaraguans have of talking. It is their badge of victory. And if the 11-year-old literacy teacher sometimes sounds a little like a hawker of socialist newspapers in the Square, listen on, for he has much more to day. In the midst of one reading lesson, the topic, of course, the revolution, he looks up and says, "It is really evil for people to bomb their own countries...
...Council doesn't ask political questions, he says, only artistic ones. Included in its funding are several socialist-revolutionary agitprop touring companies, for example. "Many right-wing politicians attack us for supporting these groups, but we fund them because their work is artistically satisfying. If there were a right-wing theatre group doing first-class work we'd fund...
...Giscard d'Estaing, in May, but he suggested that the planning begin. The meeting broke up with no decision being made. Still, U.S. officials agreed to keep the talks going. The venture came to an abrupt halt when Giscard was unexpectedly defeated at the polls by Socialist Francois Mitterrand...
Such demands prove Solidarity's great promise as a model for change, in both socialist and capitalist countries. Should they succeed, they will have done what most called impossible--create a pluralist socialist state. Like revolutionaries of an earlier date, they are united partly by hate--not of capitalist overloads, but of distant state bureaucrats, who inflict as much pain and humiliation as any factory owner. More the unity of the oppressed than simply of labor. Solidarity represents a radical national ideal--a state where the citizens were really in control of all social facets of life. Walesa...