Word: communisms
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...make it seem like America was all but isolated in the world--two dozen "democracies" defending "civilization," as he put it, against the hordes--and that we had better pull together again to avoid the rule of the all-powerful and violent slave State, embodied in a waxing Soviet Communism. It was all meant for domestic consumption, aiding the attempted restoration of a post-Viet Nam and post-Watergate conservatism...
...into the concert of military dictatorships has reinforced its repression and hegemony. This bloc of right-wing juntas and dictators, of course, naturally responds to many of the basic economic and political interests of the United States in Latin America. American interests are to keep the region free from communism and open to heavy foreign investment...
...cannot understand the fear in the Western world over Italy's becoming a Communist state. World Communism would be erased from the earth within two decades. Italians make the best saints, poets, gangsters and artists; they make very poor politicians and soldiers...
...imminent. That disaster might have been the earthquake that struck Northern Italy last week (see box following page). But Naples' Corrado Cardinal Ursi, calling for intensified prayer, identified the threat as "neopaganism," which his flock interpreted as an oblique but unmistakable reference to the rise of Italian Communism...
This depends on the person or party you have in mind. There are many types of Communism coexisting in the world nowadays. I wouldn't be rigid in my evaluation. It is true that in those countries where Communist parties have behaved in a democratic way, they have been rather small minority parties...