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...Communism's Troubles
Strobe Talbott's essay on the failure of Communism [Jan. 4] is prizewinning material. He captured the contradictions, false assumptions and lust for power that underlie this vast totalitarian system. However, the essay failed to pay sufficient attention to one striking aspect of the dilemma presented by Soviet power: it is the support of the Western world that has made the U.S.S.R. so indomitable. With our shipments of food and technology we have not only sustained the sinking ship, we have armed it as well...
Congratulations on an excellent article lucidly describing the powers and weaknesses of Communism. Mr. Reagan should study it thoroughly. He may then understand that discontent in a populace ruled by a dictator, no matter how benevolent, is fertile ground for the growth of a Communist Party. The right-wing dictatorships of Latin America, which Reagan supports, are a mockery to capitalism...
...know what he meant-as long as democracy was granted from on high, not from below, because that threatened the authorities." Rakowski may have been caught in the classic trap of Communist intellectuals, the discovery that what seems plausible in theory-in his case, the liberalizing of Communism-often does not work in practice...
...letter, Reader Mark Rogers says he opts for life under the Kremlin rather than death in a nuclear war. Having lived several years under Soviet rule, I, and many others with the same experience, would prefer dying to an endless existence in the people's paradise under Communism. Edward H. Vikart Ross, Calif...