Sentences with phrase «by communism in»

The full force of the law was used to deport, imprison and monitor persons who were deemed influenced by communism in the 1930s to 50s.

Rauch uses characters and images of life of pre-communist civil society that was oppressed by communism in the GDR.

Not exact matches

«This is perhaps most notable in central and eastern Europe where, following the end of communism, manufacturers became integrated into German supply chains (supported by FDI flows from west to east).

As for the conditions of Chinese workers etc that some have blamed on multinationals like Apple (and thus by proxy on Jobs), I thank my lucky stars I was born in the West and not in China, but does anybody really believe they were better off slaving in a rice field for 12 hours a day under hardline communism?

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

He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

In this view the idealistic Soviet experiment under Lenin was rudely distorted by Stalin, whose brutal character and methods discredited communism.

In the triangular conflict between Muslim modernism, Indian secular nationalism, and communism, another religious and political movement was born, led by Maulana Ab» ul A'la Maudoodi (born 1322; A.D. 1904).

Old cultural traditions have been obliterated by communism; Christianity provides a compelling and compassionate alternative to the hollowness of the regime's materialism; and unlike Europe, which has largely rejected its Christian heritage in a decades - long spasm of anti-clericalism, «Christianity» in China rings up «modern» and «humane,» rather than «pre-modern» and «inhumane.»

In resisting them, geopolitical «containment» along the lines of George Kennan's answer to communism will not work because they are not limited by geography or nation states.

Gaddis writes, «When John Paul II kissed the ground at the Warsaw airport on June 2, 1979, he began the process by which communism in Poland — and ultimately everywhere else in Europe — would come to an end.»

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).

A society made over by totalitarian edict, as in much of the life under communism today, would not be the kingdom of God.

On one level, its appearance in the United States, in a translation by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer, is of even greater importance than its European publication, for it is in the United States, ironically, that a friendly interpretation of communism has had its largest hearing.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

But even among the nonbelievers, there was a conspicuous sympathy and solidarity» a joy in recognizing that «everything was now different,» that another of the things demonized by communism was now available for them.

Not only is the program of the school wholly designed to fulfill the aims of communism, but newspapers, radio and television, advertising, book publishing, and even the arts are marshaled by the central government as tools in a comprehensive and continuous program of indoctrination.

It may not be necessary for democracy to destroy communism (the sole bearer, in its view, of a «materialistic» philosophy) by force.

Three years later in an interview to an Italian journal, Pope John Paul II said, «The proponents of extreme capitalism in any form tend to overlook the good things achieved by communism, the struggle against unemployment and the concern for the poor».

More important by far than an assault upon the theory of communism is the vigorous working out of Christianity's criticism of capitalism and the development among Christian people of a Christian judgment and conscience in economics.

This is especially remarkable because church life here was even more devastated by communism than it was in central Russia.

In official party and state rhetoric liberation meant both freedom from capitalism and militarism (and thus from fascism and imperialism, since the first two were presumed to lead by the logic of history to the second two) and freedom for socialism and communism (the one seen as a stage in the transition to the otherIn official party and state rhetoric liberation meant both freedom from capitalism and militarism (and thus from fascism and imperialism, since the first two were presumed to lead by the logic of history to the second two) and freedom for socialism and communism (the one seen as a stage in the transition to the otherin the transition to the other).

Anything touched by human hands can become corrupted, cases in point — communism, capitalism, government and (of course) atheism.

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.

It is a type of anti-communism distinguished by the following characteristics: it has no understanding of the causes of communism and emphasizes only self - defeating methods of opposing it; its starting point is a type of economic individualism that can not tell the difference between the modest institutions of the welfare state in this country and the first stages of communism; and it closes minds to the changes that have taken place in the Communist world.

RUSH: Now, by the way, in fairness to the pope and in fairness to the Catholic Church, I will admit that communism years ago was much easier to see and identify than it is today.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

Just as most Americans thought of communism as the immoral, godless imperialist system, Christianity is viewed by most Muslims as the religion of the colonialists, the people who come (or came) with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other.

In fact, communism, which by the way, was founded by atheists, hates religion.

This is very different from the context in which de Lubac wrote Catholicism, a time when the West was overrun by urgent projects of social unity: fascism, communism, and nationalisms of various sorts.

By the way, since Hart thinks that «the apostolic Church in Jerusalem adopted an absolute communism of goods,» he needs to reread Acts 5:2.

The totality in Marxism is achieved by society's reconstitution of Christianity; in Teilhard the same alienation of the secular from the sacred is overcome, and the same totality is erected — but by extending the influence of Christianity into all sciences, social movements (including communism) and other agencies of human perfection.

In this context, the tragedy of Oliver North is that the opinions, thoughts and feelings of the people and their elected representatives concerning aid to the contras did not matter; what seemed to matter, in an unabashed exercise of unilateral power, was the provision of such aid, by whatever means, in the name of the national interest, patriotism, and fighting communism, by people who in their actions were claiming they knew what was best for the United StateIn this context, the tragedy of Oliver North is that the opinions, thoughts and feelings of the people and their elected representatives concerning aid to the contras did not matter; what seemed to matter, in an unabashed exercise of unilateral power, was the provision of such aid, by whatever means, in the name of the national interest, patriotism, and fighting communism, by people who in their actions were claiming they knew what was best for the United Statein an unabashed exercise of unilateral power, was the provision of such aid, by whatever means, in the name of the national interest, patriotism, and fighting communism, by people who in their actions were claiming they knew what was best for the United Statein the name of the national interest, patriotism, and fighting communism, by people who in their actions were claiming they knew what was best for the United Statein their actions were claiming they knew what was best for the United States.

By the time I came to read Orwell in my teens in the late 1950s, communism had already been exposed as the God that failed by the brutality which crushed the Hungarian uprising of 1956 and Khrushchev's denouncement of the realities of StalinisBy the time I came to read Orwell in my teens in the late 1950s, communism had already been exposed as the God that failed by the brutality which crushed the Hungarian uprising of 1956 and Khrushchev's denouncement of the realities of Stalinisby the brutality which crushed the Hungarian uprising of 1956 and Khrushchev's denouncement of the realities of Stalinism.

He asserts that the West defeated revolutionary communism by standing up militarily and providing «a comprehensive strategy for changing the world and in doing so exhibit [ing] the values that, at our best, we believe in and act upon.»

@JoeJobs No, my point was that I know of no writing by Marx which would suggest that the proletariat can just buy the means of production from the bourgeoisie; that idea doesn't really fit into Marx's analysis of the capitalist system (which suggests that capital accumulates and extracts surplus value from the proletariat; they don't have the means to purchase the means of production, which is why they are the proletariat; those that do have those means, but can't participate in capitalist exploitation would be the petite bourgeoisie, but they are in no way seen as a step towards communism).

If one amplifies this to total [everything is taken away by tax, every economical decision is controlled], then one gets exactly in a situation that is equivalent with communism.

Younger generations are more and more embracing a «help your neighbor» viewpoint associating capitalism with a «Individual at the expense of everyone else» ala Martin Shkreli vs a communism «collective looking out for the good of one another», which seems to have caused a bit of a leftist tilt in the younger generation (probably a bit to do with people get screwed over by capitalism as well and the much greener grass of communism is a dream to address that).

Although the association of communism with external threats being widespread in popular belief the great majority of the events that motivated this perspective happened inside the US, and were started by Americans.

Very much an exercise of reductio ad absurdum in action, suggesting some social support is countered by all social support is communism and therefore evil.

This was eclipsed by the law that penalizes publicly and falsely attributing the crimes of Nazi Germany to the Polish nation, but in my country (Romania) had some echo because it reminded to many of the period before the fall of the communism, when a little whisper in the wrong direction could put you in jail due to «Security» paying attention to any «thought - crime».

In the document, Milne argued that communism had frightening connotations for most people in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)»In the document, Milne argued that communism had frightening connotations for most people in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)»in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)»in China where this has proved to work very well)».

With the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe 20 years ago — symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall — Sobolewski became free to pursue international collaborations without restrictions.

Dulles's playboy brother Allen, whose hedonism was matched only by his hatred of communism, was put in charge of the Central Intelligence Agency, which rapidly ballooned from an obscure bureaucratic outpost with 350 employees to an aggressive frontline agency with thousands of operatives intent on undermining Soviet power.

Then there were such pleasures on the market as Gianni Amelio's Lamerica, a mordant treatment of the collapse of communism in Albania; lively low - budget musicals by Jacques Rivette and Joseph P. Vasquez; and a memorable period extravaganza by Cheik Oumar Sissoko from Burkina Faso called Guimba.

But it's no less present in the 1947 testimony of Alice Rosenbaum (better known by her American name, Ayn Rand) to the House Un-American Activities Committee that Russians under communism never smile («If they do, it is privately and accidentally.

The film begins in 1948, when Neruda (Luis Gnecco), a Senator in the Chilean Communist Party, suddenly finds himself targeted by President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla (a cameo by Larrain regular Alfredo Castro), who has betrayed his leftist roots and dedicated himself to fighting communism.

Part historical re-creation and part fiction, the novel gives us a series of colorful sketches of the USSR after Stalin's death, when millions still believed in the ideal of economic plenty promised by 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).

For fans of historical espionage: Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst World War II hangs like a thick cloud over the members of a clandestine agency standing against fascism and communism.