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...Chilean government used public fear of a return to "communism and chaos" to insure voter approval of a constitution that will allow Gen. Auguste Pinochet to remain in power for the next 17 years, Chilean writer Jorge Edwards said yesterday...
...prominent Polish émigré" says that Marx "would not believe his eyes" if he saw workers revolting against their Communist government? Marx would have quit even looking at 20th century man's feeble attempts at Communism long ago-after so many Stalins, purges, Gulags, 17th of Junes, Prague springs, Cultural Revolutions, democratic Kampucheas and Berlin Walls. If the "Communists" of Eastern Europe bore even a resemblance to what Marx had intended, I doubt that I and thousands of other G.I.s would need to be in West Germany...
...suggests the full rebirth of direct democracy only in 1997. As the returns trickled in, tens of thousands of jubilant demonstrators gathered outside the presidential headquarters in Santiago, waving banners and chanting "?Gracias a Pinochet!" Obviously moved, the dictator called the results a "heroic gesture" and a "triumph over Communism...
...bourgeois individualism get crushed under the great rattling treads of His tory, clanking ineluctably toward the Red dawn; on closer inspection the path begins to look merely like the drearily familiar tracks of dictatorship, regressing toward the darkness. For a system dedicated to creating millennial happiness for the workers, Communism has a great deal of proletarian inconvenience and misery to answer...
...discrepancy be tween a dogmatic Marxian approach to economics and the evident reality, some Communist states have become surprisingly experimental- heretical even. In some of their demands, the workers of Gdansk were asking only for what their comrades in Hungary gained years ago. Yugoslavia practices a renegade Communism that allows for certain capitalist trappings...