Sentences with phrase «about communism in»

The film is apparently an allegory about communism in Czechoslovakia.

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In other news, there was just a story about a Tibetan artist that was tortured by Chinese police for opposing their atheistic communism.

And what about christian communism, especially as was practiced in Plymouth, MA?

Right - wing paranoia about communism and civil - rights activism was abroad in the land, and this paranoia had turned the city of Dallas into a seething political madhouse.

The second economic system, that of communism, is also unrealistic about human nature, but in a different way.

The answer, I think, is to be found in another important volume about communism: The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century, by François Furet (see the discussion by Brian C. Anderson elsewhere in this issue).

Far more worried about communism than racial inequality, the Kennedys forced King to break his ties with his closest white friend in the summer of 1963 as a condition for their continued lukewarm support of the movement.

President Carter's announcement at Notre Dame in 1977 that Americans had gotten over their «inordinate fear of communism»» together with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's statement that Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev shared «similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues»» demonstrated that the degradation of moral judgment into moral posturing could coexist with breathtaking strategic myopia (and indeed moral blindness) in minds for which the evocation of the specter of Vietnam marked an end to moral reasoning, or indeed any other form of reasoning.

In particular, this means that we should distinguish between communism and the many efforts to bring about deep social changes which actually are an essential antidote to communism.

Not Marxism qua Marxism but you have to understand that what Jesus taught us about living in this world shares a a lot with some of the ideals of communism.

People are afraid of being considered soft on communism if they raise serious questions about national attitudes and policies in the Cold War.

He talks about what we do when communism has died and one can not be a Catholic in Italy — what did the refugees do at night?

Even as they complained about his leadership, Cox was off into new territories, raising respectful questions about the necessary role of play, ritual, and imagination, questions about the undeniable strength of the popular devotions of stubborn peasants — in Latin America under the traditional power of the landlords, and among the shipbuilders and electricians of Poland, who had the foot of communism on their necks.

Despite all his great scholarly works, and his political achievements in helping to bring about the fall of communism, John Paul II gave an instant response when once asked how he would like posterity to remember him: as the Pope of the family.

In an introductory note, Mahoney issues a simple appeal to «take Solzhenitsyn seriously» now that we know more about the inner workings of communism.

The US were concerned about a communist revolution in Japan, so they (or possibly the Japanese themselves, I'm not sure on this point) initially censored some war crimes such as the Nanking massacre for fear that it would provoke sympathy among the Japanese for communism.

For all the right - wing hysterics about the Affordable Care Act being radical communism, the health care reform law is awfully similar to the reform package adopted in Massachusetts, as part of an agreement between Romney and Democratic state lawmakers.

(Grade: A --RRB-: This touching, profound and gently humorous German comedy / drama — about a teenage boy, circa 1989, who goes to great lengths to keep his invalid mother from learning communism has collapsed in East Germany — encapsulates the emotion and drama of that epochal event in such a satisfying way it seems destined to become a classic.

The best film of 2006 is a German film about a coldhearted Stasi agent who is assigned to get something, anything, on a prominent playwright in East Germany, five years before the collapse of communism.

Wunderman goes where few writers have dared in exploring the difficult subjects of communism and atheism (as she says in her interview at BookBrowse she didn't set out to write about these subjects per se but wanted her characters to be truly shunned by the community without making them perverts or criminals).

Stephan Segrest: In the US, in the 1970s, liberals (both Republican and Democrat) complained that conservatives were wrong about communisIn the US, in the 1970s, liberals (both Republican and Democrat) complained that conservatives were wrong about communisin the 1970s, liberals (both Republican and Democrat) complained that conservatives were wrong about communism.

-- That he lied about his war service: He was a tailgunner in World War II; — That he was a drunk: He would generally nurse a single drink all night; — That he made the whole thing up: He produced loads of Soviet spies in government jobs; — That he just did it for political gain: He understood perfectly the godless evil of communism.

So this «triumphalism» about the evils of communism tends to whitewash evils of the non-communist world, and I deliberately haven't included Nazi Germany, slavery in the U.S., the decimation of the First Nations in North America, the Armenian genocide, the Rape of Nanking, and other examples from history.