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...Dearest.”Written by Alexandra A. Petri ’10 and Megan L. Amram ’10—the team that also penned “Acropolis Now”—“Commie Dearest” features the Cold War, Communism, climate change, racism, and even potatoes. “It’s about Communists and ‘Grease’ and aliens,” Amram says. “A time when men were men, women were men in drag, and illegal aliens were from space...
...years as a high-living, foxhunting capitalist to support Marx's endeavors--Engels' devotion was such that he even assumed the paternity of an illegitimate child of Marx's. Hunt shows how factionalism was endemic among 19th century radical groups, nurturing poisonous seeds whose harvest became clear only when communism turned from theory into murderous practice. But he reminds us, too, that Engels' great work on the misery of early industrial life is enough to explain why communist theory--and revolution--was once so appealing...
...island where communism is the de facto state religion, it was a refreshing shock on both sides of the Florida Straits to see the hallowed Revolution Plaza packed not for a 10-hour Fidel speech but for something as joyously secular as a pop concert. As Granma itself noted afterward, there was "no political manipulation of cultural expression ... just a vote for human understanding." And while that's to the Castros' credit, the truth is that the long-term effects of that sort of nondogmatic fiesta don't always favor systems like Cuba's. Says Daniel Erikson, a senior associate...
...Berlin Wall and the undertaking of the Human Genome Project, nothing except the basic chronology of their situations and Yuri’s periodic involvement connects them. Volpi gives us a preview of a formidable Soviet biologist who loses her loved ones, first to the cruelty of communism and then to the charm of capitalism; a conflicted IMF negotiator who “comport[s] herself like a government bond”; and a dangerously dispassionate Hungarian computer scientist who attracts men easily and abandons them even more effortlessly. All three face the challenge of watching others be engulfed...
...generate a coherent intellectual program, the spontaneous activism of the American Left eventually dissolved into stagflation and Vietnam. In Latin America, a similar trajectory was under way, as the 70s transformed student-movements’ revolutionary energies into Pinochet’s military rule and Castro’s communism. The question for many artists at the time thus became how to probe the breach between the rich creative promise of the period and what it had actually become...