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...Totalitarian Temptation, Jean-François Revel...
...Mitford's involvement in the party was pretty complete, and she has a great deal to say about what the party was doing during the '40s and '50s. The picture she draws is radically different from the Communist conspiracy view: to insiders, the party was much less rigid and totalitarian than the rest of America believed, and Mitford's descriptions--from her slightly off-beat perspective--of party meetings and activities imbues the CPUSA with a human touch...
Glucksmann and his colleagues have pasted a totalitarian label on Marxism at a time when Communist parties in Italy and Spain, as well as in France, are talking up 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...
...came clear that Hua was winning the leadership struggle. To accomplish this he can call on at least a half-million security troops under his command. He apparently also supervises several secrecy-shrouded police organizations; these include the dreaded Ministry of Public Security, which maintains Peking's totalitarian rule, partly through the aid of a vast system of forced-labor camps, where millions are imprisoned...
According to The Totalitarian Temptation, Communist regimes are judged by what they promise to do; oth er states are rated on their deeds. The de nial of freedom in Communist-dominated Peru, for example, is excused by many leftists as a historical necessity on the road to the socialist paradise. The same behavior in Chile is denounced as fascist repression. Revel makes the pro vocative point that while many fascist regimes have come and gone, and a few have even been liberalized, not a single orthodox Communist regime has disappeared in this century...