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Prodi’s left-wing l’Unione coalition comprises a hodge-podge of parties spread all over the political spectrum, ranging from staunch communists to former liberals (with communists stronger than in the previous election).
His death brings closer the end of the Gorbachev generation of reform communists, those who – like Shevardnadze and the late Boris Yeltsin – presented a stark contrast in the late 1980s to the dour Brezhnev-era hard-liners, spurring (mostly inadvertently) the collapse of the Soviet empire and the long transition to democracy.
Moreover, China fears that Hong Kong, with a population of less than eight million, might present a systemic problem as an alternative form of government, even though many Communists and their allies hold key positions in Hong Kong’s private and public sectors.
The response took one of two fatal forms in the interwar period: Socialists and communists chose social reform, while fascists chose national assertion.
Even more treacherous is “reverse Marxism”: since the communists did so, the exact opposite must be true.
In other instances, people wrongly believe the communists achieved their propagated aims.
Similarly, in a Marxist vein, most reformers - and communists - in the former Soviet Union argued that privatization had to precede liberalization, this despite the fact that many Central European countries had failed to de-monopolize and privatize until they liberalized.
The reason why French parliamentarians, ranging from Communists to conservatives, support this ban is a general consensus that wearing the burqa is “contrary to the values of the Republic.”
In fact, Taiwan’s moral superiority over mainland China lies not only in its democratic institutions, but also in its unbroken adherence to the ancient culture that the Chinese communists nearly succeeded in annihilating after coming to power in 1949.
Communists (instructed by Stalin), but also the non-Communist left in 1920s Germany, refused to defend the fragile Weimar Republic when it was under assault from the right.
Communists controlled the security forces, the army, all the organs of the state.
There was also his commitment to fight poverty: “To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required – not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
As ironic as it may sound, China’s so-called communists apparently trust Hong Kong’s tycoons more than its masses (perhaps because buying off tycoons costs a lot less).
As for the opposition, various presidential ambitions have been manifested, perhaps most especially those of Drazen Budisa (HSLS), a former dissident and political prisoner, and his Social Democratic partner Ivica Racan, the last head of Croatia's Communists.
Communists always had a tendency to dismiss the differences between candidates in liberal democracies (let alone “managed” ones).
The recently concluded elections, which pushed the Communists out of their dominant position in the Rada and sharply curtailed the power of the "parties of power" that surround President Kuchma, pushed our provincial radicals to the fringes of our politics.
In France and Germany, a new far left – composed of Trotskyites, communists, and anarchists – is rising from the ashes to become a political force again.
The Left's rank and file is faceless, with Communists, former guerrillas, and other radical fellow travelers marching side-by-side with a moderate majority of Social and Christian Democrats.
Of course, all seducers of the masses, potential tyrants or fanatics, have used this argument to make their case; the communists did the same when they declared themselves the most enlightened sector of the population and, by virtue of this alleged enlightenment, arrogated to themselves the right to rule arbitrarily.
For the first few years after Sukarno's fall in 1966, all the benefits of genuine democracy, including freedom of the press, were restored (except for the communists).
Consensus could soon fall apart, particularly if communists win the presidency or if severe political infighting resumes.
Should groups like the communists try to shove the country in a dangerous direction, large sectors in society would simply balk.
Indeed, he appears set to be waging battles against the communists that are already won.
So far, the main target of its campaign is the communists, whom Kremlin political operatives hope to destroy in the way they destroyed Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Fatherland party, who were the leading non-communist challengers during Putin's first presidential campaign.
That focus on the battle with the communists may allow other forces to sneak into the Duma by the back door.
After Mao made his revolution in 1948, Chinese communists followed the Stalinist model of development.
Despite the fact that the opposition agreement boosted the popularity of the unreformed Czech Communists, the determination of the Civic Democrats and Social Democrats to continue dividing the spoils of power remained undiminished.
Spanish democracy died in the 1930s because a system of mutual recognition among fascists, conservatives, liberals, and Communists was impossible.
After 1991, it was Lenin and the communists.
Communists, too, following the good old Russian slogan "kill the Yids, save Russia" insisted that, yes, the Jews were conspiring, once again, to ruin Russia.
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