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...them part of this world has failed. What was Marxism, but a try at institutionalizing some of those vague notions? And yet, if any experiment has ever failed resoundingly it is that one, for the forces of greed, ambition and control have been able to pervert the idea of communism until it is an unparalleled abomination. And what were trade unions in the West, but a stab at something called living decently? When there was enough in this country to go around they sometimes worked for the quarter of the labor force they protected; now that the squeeze...
Italy's P.C.I, last month approved a policy paper that totally rejects Soviet-style Communism. Blaming the sad state of Eastern European regimes on the absence of genuine democracy, the document states heretically that orthodox Communism "ends up not only by killing liberty and creative energy but slows down the very economic, technological and cultural dynamism of society." Says Gianfranco Pasquino, professor of political science at the University of Bologna: "The Communist Party is now so far away from the Soviet Union that one can no longer speak of a possible break-the break has already taken place." That...
Whatever their future course, the widening gap with Moscow has forced Eurocommunists to search for new ideological ground that will distinguish them from Western Europe's myriad Socialist and Social Democratic parties. Berlinguer's answer is a terza via (third way) that rejects Soviet-bloc Communism while "overcoming" the flaws of social democracy. So far his idea remains vague, serving as little more than a rallying slogan...
American boys went to Vietnam to stem global communism; we preferred, understandably, a pro-West government to achieve this goal. We propped up a dubious regime in the southern part of the country and called it the Republic of South Vietnam. Our objective, then, was to legitimize this government, a difficult, perhaps impossible, task. But the hit-parade of generals and petty tyrants in Saigon possessed little popular support, no traditions of political leadership, no real boundaries and no mandate to govern from its people. We gave the Vietnamese the shadow of representative government but not the substance; as many...
England's Keston College, a research center on Christianity under Communism, reports that 30,000 of the estimated 150,000 Soviet Pentecostalists are seeking to emulate 255,000 Soviet Jews and emigrate. Supporters of the seven claim the State Deparment has been lax in pressing the Soviets, which State denies. U.S. diplomats have tried to talk them into leaving the embassy as the only way to get an exit visa. Meanwhile, the State Deparment objects to a bill by Michingan Senator Carl Levin, co sponsored by 64 other Senators, to improve the seven's circumstances by giving them...