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At issue is an attempt to stop an epidemic, the carriers of which in 20th century Europe have been nazism, communism, fascism, and now, nationalism.
Since Communism's fall, center right parties in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia have suffered from disunity and a lack of vision.
The problem of identity is made even worse by the fact that most Central European nations, where nation-building was retarded by Communism, easily succumb to nationalist sentiments that in turn are misused by some politicians.
Political developments in Czechoslovakia during the last 20 years of communism set the Czech Republic and Slovakia apart from both Poland and Hungary.
As a result, various political groups associated with the Solidarity trade union movement have, since Communism's fall, aspired to represent the political right, confusing the terms of political discourse.
After seven decades of Communism, the transition to a democratic market economy would not be easy.
In other words, Russia is being allowed to re-assert its “sphere of influence” – a concept that should have been superceded by that of “Europe Whole and Free,” which the entire European Union appeared to have embraced when communism collapsed.
The last time he gave a speech as noteworthy as this summer’s was 25 years ago, when, as a young man, he helped break the back of communism in Europe.
We who experienced communism know well the outcomes of such beliefs: dead, artificial cities; gigantic waterworks that fail only after destroying diverse ecosystems; vast, largely anonymous and thus irresponsible states deciding where and how we shall dwell, work, relax or amuse ourselves.
Maintaining the false label of communism while reviving capitalism and insisting that Mao, for all his mistakes and crimes, was 70% “correct” is the bedrock of the moral corruption that afflicts China today.
Discredited by the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe, communism is effectively moribund, and its core constituencies – where communist parties manage to hang on – are aging and incapable of reproducing themselves.
When we recall the Cold War, it is important to remember that America's strategy of containment combined the deterrent of its hard military power with the attractiveness of its soft cultural power, which eroded confidence and belief in Communism behind the Iron Curtain.
At first, after they had vanquished communism, Russians regarded themselves as victors.
But only three times has an Italian vote claimed center stage internationally: in 1948, when the choice was between the West and communism; in 1976, when voters faced a similar choice, between the Christian Democrats and Enrico Berlinguer’s “Eurocommunism”; and now, with the upcoming referendum on constitutional reforms.
Nonetheless, the US was unable to prevent the “loss” of China, “roll back” communism in Eastern Europe, prevent stalemate in the Korean War, defeat Vietnam’s National Liberation Front, or dislodge the Castro regime in Cuba.
So no surprise that Russian science fell into a black hole due to economic upheaval in the decade following communism's collapse.
The break with communism and reunification of Europe is now almost two decades old.
Communism and socialism do not command public support as they once did.
Communism can be understood as an attempt to eliminate dependence on these elites by organizing production through the state.
With so many "different" names bestriding society, it is no surprise that some Russians, reared on the endemic paranoia of communism, smelled a conspiracy.
Their real triumph occurred in 1989, when Communism collapsed and the emerging new societies needed a language to express their goals.
One thinks of a new International, not of communism, but of vulgarity and bling, in which the political landscape shrinks to the dimensions of a television stage.
If there is any “ambiguity” about Stalin’s moral record, it may be because communism strikes a chord with some of our nobler impulses, seeking equality for all and an end to poverty.
But communism under Stalin was the opposite of egalitarian, for it gave absolute power to a few, and denied all rights to the many.
As the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey has noted, while the bourgeoisie provides the clerisy with a living, in times of crisis, the clerisy tends to promote anti-bourgeois fantasies, from nationalism to communism.
I asked a top general what he knew of communism at the time.
For him, a survivor of extreme poverty and oppression, communism was a beautiful, sustaining dream, the hope of a just and advanced society.
Elections for the Duma and, in 1996 for the President, give Russia a chance to show its true colors: are we looking at populism, nationalism, retread communism, western reformism or a blend of all with unforecastabel results?
Only Japan’s lost decade-and-a-half and the hardships of the transition from communism count as true macroeconomic catastrophes of a magnitude that was depressingly common in earlier decades.
It also means launching a concerted information campaign to discredit that ideology, much like the West discredited communism during the Cold War – a critical component of its eventual triumph.
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