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...this is a long jump indeed from Joe's irresponsible guerrilla tactics back in the days when McCarthyism was a kind of Washington swamp fever. He dealt in false allegations that various public officials (and distinguished private citizens too) were either Communists or dupes of Communism. He attacked not just alleged Communists but also their colleagues, friends and relatives. He almost never seriously tried to check facts. Finally, he was backed by a whole apparatus of secret interrogations and blacklists by which a victim could be deprived of reputation and livelihood without any chance to defend himself. The term...
...DIPLOMACY. "You say that you cannot allow Communism to take over Indochina, but you decided to be friends with China and the Soviet Union, the two most powerful Communist countries in history. Why do you accept friendship with Chinese and Soviet Communism and consider Indochinese Communism as dangerous? Indochina does not threaten the U.S. in any way. You are very far away. Why don't you let us live our lives? If we want to be Communists, why do you refuse us such a right...
...dying days of the McCarthy wave and aired on the Armstrong Reports series, which led me to wonder seriously for some time whether my next-door neighbor was a functioning tool of the insidious and godless conspiracy to undermine my way of life. Tonight, NBC reports on "American Communism Today" and if you watch you may learn something about your next-door neighbor (especially if you live in Old Quincy which I understand is infested with fellow-travelers). CH. 4. 10 p.m. Color...
...Marxist renaissance is a peculiar phenomenon. By any empirical standard, Marx's major prophecies-such as Communism's triumph over capitalism or the outbreak in industrialized societies of the workers' revolution-have proved false. No economy based on his teachings has approached the efficiency of a free-market system, and governments that tried to enforce his Utopian views have been compelled to rely on totalitarian methods. Nonetheless, Europe's expanding middle class is discovering to its horror that its sons and daughters are increasingly hostile to industry, "the System" and even to the established left...
...class struggle is gaining ground," that professors, journalists, union bosses and even church leaders now "find it chic to be as far left as possible." Members of French President Georges Pompidou's capitalist-minded Cabinet speak somewhat defensively of pursuing a "third way" between capitalism and Communism. "A Communist was once an anti-Christ," notes Le Monde Reporter André Laurens. "Now he has become a man to have a dialogue with. What a drama for French conservatives. Their bishops talk kindly about socialism, and their priests favorably about Marxism...