Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their socialism and still remain ethnic and national entities. But such experiments in East Germany, its leaders fear, would simply hasten the swallowing of their state by the larger Federal Republic next door. In the well-noted words of senior Communist Party ideologist Otto Reinhold, "What reason would a capitalist G.D.R. have for existing next to a capitalist Federal Republic? None, naturally...
There is a nice irony in Brecht's ferocious parable of capitalist greed playing in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, that pillared temple of capitalist philanthropy. The parable itself, though, is rather silly. Brecht was a brilliant playwright and poet, but his ideas were pure Stalin-era blustering. As a viewer sits watching the hero Jimmy get executed for having been unable to pay his bar bill, he can only marvel at the gorgeous music Weill provided for this nonsense...
...language was far harsher than anything the students ever wrote. Deng Xiaoping, the booklet charged, "is only an opportunist" whose "erroneous leadership" has betrayed "genuine Marxism-Leninism." Unlike the students, who castigated Deng for not carrying reforms far enough, the book accuses him of hurtling mindlessly down "the capitalist road." The solution: "Overthrow that handful of ambitious climbers and conspirators in the central party committee headed by Deng...
...denouncing the agreement as a violation of "sanctified moral norms of international coexistence." Lest anyone miss the point, Polish opposition leader Lech Walesa spelled it out in an interview with an Italian newspaper: "We are setting out . . . to return to the prewar situation when Poland was a capitalist country...
...mass exodus is no joke. In the past, the trickle of legal refugees primarily involved senior citizens, which was East Germany's way of palming off some of its pension burden on the capitalist West. But the loss of so many young professionals presents East Germany with the prospect of a serious brain drain...