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...emotion they had once directed toward his books and articles. The Communist newspaper L'Humanité's report reads like an obituary not so much for the murdered Mme. Althusser as for "our comrade," the Algerian-born, Catholic-reared philosopher who had switched from conservatism to Communism after five years as a German P.O.W. in World War II. Le Monde, which had published a series of Althusser's attacks on the French Communist party leadership, commented learnedly and protectively about "altruistic suicide," in which manic-depressives kill loved ones to shield them from torments they themselves suffer...
Scholars in Thailand disagree. They are sanguine about Buddhism's long-range prospects in Indochina, since they feel the Gautama's ideas are not incompatible with Communism. Observes Thai Scholar Sulak Sivaraksa: "Christianity and Communism have a lot of ideological conflicts, but this is not the case with traditional Buddhism, which is socialistic in that it champions the equality...
...Anti-Reagan" demonstration at Harvard's Memorial Church on 5 November reeked of liberal hypocrisy. Speakers bemoaned Reagan's war-mongering, racism and anti-communism. But would there have been a demonstration if Jimmy Carter had been reelected? Judging by the number of Carter/Mondale buttons and the pro-Democratic Party DSOC members at the rally, it's obvious that a Carter victory would have been hailed as a victory against the "New Right." One speaker even went so far as to claim that the "left" was was destroyed by Reagan's victory. Sorry, but Reagan's victory was the destruction...
...every individual in the community. " So says Robert Mugabe, the former nationalist guerrilla leader and self-proclaimed Marxist who took over as the first Prime Minister of independent Zimbabwe six months ago. Since then, he has allayed many of the widespread fears that he might plunge the country into Communism or racial chaos. Instead, the sternly ascetic Mugabe, 56, has preached a policy of national reconciliation and cautious gradualism in economic adjustment. In his sparsely decorated office in downtown Salisbury last week, Mugabe discussed his government's progress and goals with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark. Excerpts...
...most interesting results came from the question "What is China's biggest social problem?" Fifty-five percent replied that it was the special privileges of Communist Party cadres. Some 23% said unemployment. Another question simply asked the students to name what they believe in. Only one-third answered "Communism," a surprisingly low figure considering the intense indoctrination of youth for the past 30 years. Nearly a quarter of the students said they believed in fate, a tiny fraction named capitalism. A significant 25% offered a chilling answer: "Nothing...