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...last best hope for genuine world revolution. Now Revel is at it again. At a time when many non-Communist leftists in Europe are getting newly enthusiastic about coalitions with Communist parties, he insists in a new book called The Totalitarian Temptation that there is no Communism but Stalinism. Any alliance with it, says Revel, is political suicide...
Disillusioned Socialist. Revel's trenchant attack on Communism, although hardly original, comes at a critical moment for French leftists. Long slavishly subservient to Moscow dogma, the Communist Party in France has lately taken a cue from the heartening electoral successes of Italy's Communists (TIME, June 30). The Italian party has assumed impeccable democratic manners, has pledged to abide by parliamentary democracy and, if in power, to permit opposition, a free press and even a mixed economy. Striving to shed his party's doctrinaire image, French Communist Chief Georges Marchais went so far as to state...
...number of men and [put it] a little more under their control." Such true socialism as exists in the world today, he argues, can survive only along with social justice and political democracy-that is, in the liberal democracies of the West. The two principal obstacles to socialism are Communism and nationalism, he contends. The combination of the two ideologies in the Soviet Union has created the strongest and least communicative nation in his tory, as well as an implacable enemy of true socialism. Once in power, Communism becomes despotism...
Kissinger and Colby had plenty of precedents. Since the late '40s, the U.S. has heavily backed Italian politicians opposed to Communism, just as the Soviet Union has supported Red candidates over the years. Compared with the funds that the U.S. sent to Italy in the past, the $6 million amounted to small potatoes...
...been fascinated by China, whether it was seen as an ally, a fanatical adversary or, as now, a somewhat remote power that has entered into some limited foreign policy partnership with the U.S. In an increasingly difficult world?Indochina lost, Russian détente severely strained, Southern Europe threatened by Communism, and murky battles looming with the Third World?the U.S. basically wants to know whether, in the long run, China will be friend or foe. The man who will shape a large part of the answer is Teng...