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...most extraordinary men in the history of Communism last week commanded the attention of their countrymen. One of them led his country into a period of terror and repression so traumatic that his own people denounced him after his death, overturning his statues and pulling down his pictures. The other, who tried to blend socialism with Western-style personal liberties, won the deep respect of his countrymen. As history so often does, it reversed the roles of the two men. The represser was resuscitated, the reformer repudiated...
...political tragedy of Czechoslovakia has turned into an intensely human drama that centers on Alexander Dubček, the architect of the country's short-lived "springtime of freedom." As one of the few courageous reformers in Communist history, Dubček sought, in his words, to give Communism "a human face...
...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 real politic 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 presupposes the exploitation of the colonies. The purity of principles not only tolerates, but even requires violence...
...interests in power. It counsels economic reform so as to better bypass the troubling social unrest that accompanies popular programs of modernization. This translates quickly to anti-communism...
...teach at universities, there were no communists left at Harvard. He had already removed any he could find. He told McCarthy that Harvard had to be free to police itself. We begin to see that what repulsed Pusey about Joe McCarthy was not his politics, for Pusey too disliked communism. Rather it was McCarthy's piggish style. A liberal system must always weed out its enemies, but with understated elegance...