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...other nations vital to the success of the Free World Rim Strategy. They had come here to study concrete situations, relevant theories, and game strategies; their purpose was to improve the efficacy of their governments, governments friendly to American-influence and dependent on American support in the fight against Communism and insurgent nationalism. The intent was as simple as that...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a French existential Marxist, speaks very convincingly in Humanism and Terror about the liberal illusions. He says: Communism is often discussed in terms of contrast between deception, cunning, violence, propaganda [Pusey used many of these same words] and the respect for truth, law and individual consciousness... Communists reply that in democracies, cunning, violence, propaganda, and realpolitik in the guise of liberal principles are the substance of foreign or colonial politics and even of domestic politics. Respect for law and liberty has served to justify police repression of strikes in America... The material and moral culture of England...
...went after Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield and South Dakota Democrat George S. McGovern, two of the authors of a Senate measure that would end all American combat operations in South Viet Nam by Dec. 31, 1970. Their plan, Agnew said, is a blueprint for disaster and humiliation, "chaos and Communism." He added: "One wonders if they really give a damn." In a Senate speech the next day, Hatfield asked: "What kind of men have we at the helm of government who would deliberately coerce the public into accepting their policies on the threat of being branded traitors...
...rhetoric kept pace with her actions except in the classroom, where, her U.C.L.A. philosophy department colleagues said, her Communism never influenced her excellent lectures. In a speech, she once declared that "the Government has to be overthrown." Like Marcuse, however, she added that a general violent revolution was impossible in the United States. But Marcuse has distinguished between the "institutionalized" violence of society and the "defensive" violence of revolutionary students. Disciple Davis once spoke approvingly of the Che-Lumumba Club's concept that "revolution must be tied to dealing with specific problems now, not a lot of rhetoric about...
...those young Americans who are detouring from the overcrowded highways of Western Europe this summer to investigate the nations of the East, the incident is typical. Few have any liking for Soviet-style Communism. But generally they are left of center in their politics and critical of American values and institutions. Hence the ordinary East European's undiscriminating affection for things American surprises the visitors -and provides quite an education...