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...Italian communists have developed a doctrine of a route to communism that includes democracy," he said. "They're not acting on one global party doctrine...
...second poem, "Two Birds: A Dialogue," is a sarcastic, earthy blast against what Chinese editorials have long called the "goulash Communism" of the Soviet Union. It depicts a conversation between two birds, one a giant roc that soars over the earth, with "the blue sky on its back," and the other a timid sparrow "scared stiff" in his bush. The world is in chaos ("Gunfire licks the heavens,/ Shells pit the earth"), and the sparrow wants to escape to "a jeweled palace in Elfland's hills." The roc replies angrily...
...have-nots are often described as the South (in contrast to the industrialized North), the LDCs (less developed countries) or the Third World (in comparison with the First World of the industrialized West and the Second World of Communism). The diplomatic vehicle often used by the poor nations is the so-called Group of 77, a consortium of developing countries (actually, there are now 103) within the United Nations...
...years, western unity against communism in Africa has been the rallying cry of racist South Africa. South African forces fighting alongside FNLA/UNITA have penetrated 200 miles into Angolan territory. And these forces aim to protect South African investments in Angola, and to eliminate black Namibian revolutionaries operating from Angolan bases. But more importantly, South Africa seeks to prevent the formation of a ring of hostile black states on her borders. Western support for FNLA/UNITA thus contributes directly to the preservation of apartheid in South Africa, a system from which many American firms profit...
Military cooperation between the U.S. and China "will come at the expense of Third World peoples" and will not further the interests of world communism, Seymour said...