All Posts Tagged With: "Communism"
Federal Surveillance: The Threat to Americans’ Security
Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11 the Bush administration has launched many new surveillance programs in the name of homeland security. When critics raised questions about the potential abuses of the new powers, some administration supporters insisted that Bush’s new surveillance policies were benign because there was no evidence the programs were being abused. But [...]
1Jan2004 | James Bovard | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – December 2003
Stalin’s Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939–1941 by Albert L. Weeks Rowman & Littlefield • 2002 • 201 pages • $60 hardcover; 24.95 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling For most of the period since the end of World War II the general interpretation about the role of the Soviet Union in the events leading up to the beginning of [...]
1Dec2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – October 2003
The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I by Thomas Fleming Basic Books • 2003 • 543 pages • $30.00 Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Imagine how different the twentieth century might have been if Lenin and the Bolsheviks had never come to power in Russia in 1917 and had not set in motion all the cruel crimes that were [...]
1Oct2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedAverage Americans versus Environmentalists
A few years ago American Enterprise magazine carried an article by Karl Zinsmeister titled “Environmentalists vs. Scientists.” It’s mostly a report on research published by two academics, Stanley Rothman and Robert Lichter, in their book Environmental Cancer: A Political Disease. The authors surveyed a cross-section of environmental leaders at organizations such as the Natural Resources [...]
1Jul2003 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedThe U.S. Embargo on Cuba: A Red Herring
An erroneous assumption plagues the now decades-old debate about the U.S. embargo on Cuba. Debaters, both pro and con, take it as given that Cubans would be inundated with things American should the embargo be lifted. Nothing could be further from the truth. For left-liberal opponents of the embargo, the error probably traces to wishful [...]
1Jun2003 | T. Norman Van Cott | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Pentagon Ramps Up the War on Privacy
David Brown is a freelance writer and editor. This is the first of two parts. [Editor's Note: As we went to press the U.S. Congress had hampered the Defense Department's ability to carry out the threat to privacy discussed in the following article. Under the provision adopted the Pentagon cannot proceed until it assesses for [...]
1Apr2003 | David M. Brown | 0 comments | ContinuedUtopia Versus Eutopia
Utopianism has a long-running history that includes turning the 1900s into the bloodiest century in human experience. Typically utopian schemes are founded on the premise that individual self-interest must be subjugated for the purported greater public good. As such, utopianism is fit for only a utopia: the term derives from the Greek words ou (“not”) [...]
1Mar2003 | Daniel Hager | 1 comment | ContinuedThey Learned from the Workers
I have a confession to make: there has always been something attractive to me about the Maoist idea of sending the intellectuals out into the countryside and into the factories to “learn from the peasants and proletarians.” When I listen to the endless stream of leftist pronouncements that comes from academia these days I really [...]
1Oct2002 | Stephen Browne | 0 comments | ContinuedHow’s the Third World Doing?
The Third World is in trouble. Standards of living are plummeting, while the West is getting richer. Nearly everyone seems to believe it. The left wants to believe it as a justification for global socialism. Racists want to believe it because it “proves” the superiority of the white race. The media think it’s a good [...]
1Sep2002 | James Peron | 0 comments | ContinuedFond Memories of Communism
“You! You bastard, you destroyed the greatest system in the world!” I was taking my English class to our room at the Institute for Physical Chemistry in Warsaw when I heard this slightly mad Russian voice bellowing at me. “No, I didn’t. You did that all by yourself and you can’t have Alaska back,” I [...]
1Aug2002 | Stephen Browne | 1 comment | ContinuedLafcadio Hearn
Nearly a century after his death, Lafcadio Hearn is widely unknown. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896) is being republished this year, but much of Hearn’s work is out of print, and it’s hard to find Hearn on library shelves or in used bookstores. Yet Hearn had a singular vision, and was [...]
1Jul2002 | Frank Laffitte | 0 comments | ContinuedWashington’s Inadvertent Support for Cuban Communism
Havana, Cuba—Roberto Alarcón, well-dressed but of unexceptional appearance, is thought to be the No. 3 man in Cuba, after only Fidel and Raúl Castro. He lazily sprawled in his chair before eight American journalists, fondling his cigar. Asked about Havana’s willingness to negotiate with the United States over its embargo against his country, Alarcón responded: [...]
1Jul2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedChina’s Peasants Suffer Under Apartheid
China operates an apartheid system that divides its citizens into separate worlds according to whether they were born in rural or urban areas. After reforms in South Africa and the collapse of the Soviet Union, few other countries have residency controls. While world opinion rightly denounced apartheid in South Africa, few complaints were registered against [...]
1Jun2002 | Christopher Lingle | 2 comments | ContinuedCuba in Revolution by Miguel A. Faria, Jr.
Hacienda Publishing • 2001 • 452 pages • $26.95 Reviewed by George C. Leef The vicious regime of Fidel Castro has for more than 40 years trampled on individual rights in Cuba, but the details of his seizure of power and subsequent Stalinist rule remain surprisingly little known in the United States. Within weeks of [...]
1Jun2002 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedAnd the Winner Is . . .
Someone should give the New York Times the “Most Absurd Headline of the Year” award. On August 22 this appeared on Page One: “Workers’ Rights Suffering as China Goes Capitalist” The news article by Erik Eckholm “reported” that as China has undergone a transition toward markets, workers’ interests are not effectively represented. Apparently, workers’ organizations [...]
1Feb2002 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe New China
Larry Tritten is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, the National Lampoon, and other publications. My first impressions of China came from the movies and comic books of the World War II era. The Chinese were always presented as our courageous allies, the salt-of-the earth people who risked their lives [...]
1Sep2001 | Larry Tritten | 2 comments | ContinuedPhony Marketeers
Contributing editor Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). Which political movements benefited most from the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? Certainly not libertarianism or the free-market [...]
1Sep2001 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | Continued-
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