The conservative defense of Pinochet was that he was the least-bad option; better the path of Pinochet than the path toward Castroism, which is where Chile was heading before the general seized power. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
My essay on "Castroism," for one, has nothing to say on these subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Multiple Simultaneous Submissions] Reference
Are they debating subtle differences between Maoism and Castroism?. From Wordnik.com. [Turning the Other Check] Reference
This feels like an unprecedented moment in the history of Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [The End May Be Near] Reference
He would discover that I was among the earliest critics of Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [Marx & Martí] Reference
Castroism lost its opportunity to turn the tide to the left in Chile and Latin America. From Wordnik.com. [REPLY TO STATEMENTS MADE BY CHILEAN PRES. FREI] Reference
He might also read what I have written on the Cuban Independence Movement and on Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [Marx & Martí] Reference
D. Tree – maybe you can educate us as to what Marixm, Leninism, Castroism and Chavezism IS?. From Wordnik.com. [Obama did not order Van Jones' resignation, adviser says] Reference
They have been unwilling or unable to separate Stalinism from Maoism ... from Titoism ... from Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [Viet NamA Reporter's View] Reference
We would like to know who in the opposition or the government would save us if Castroism were to triumph in Cuba '. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENTS BY CASTRO AT PRIME MINISTER OF THE RE] Reference
I believed profoundly in Zionism in the way that my contemporaries believed profoundly in Maoism or Castroism or whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Air Remembers Historian Tony Judt] Reference
Undoubtedly, Debray has sympathies for Castroism, but this does not constitute prima facie evidence that he led a guerrilla band. From Wordnik.com. [Regis Debray] Reference
But dance also serves as a metaphor: ordinary Cubans, desperate for U.S. dollars to buy luxuries like medicine and fresh milk, delicately tip-toe the line between Castroism and capitalism to earn more than their allotted share. From Wordnik.com. [DANCING FOR THEIR LIVES] Reference
In a previous book, Castroism, Myth and Realities, he destroyed both the rightist legend that the Cuban revolution was the product of a plot engineered by the agents of international communism, and the leftist one that it was a revolt of the peasantry and agrarian proletariat against the big landowners. From Wordnik.com. [Castro's Revolution] Reference
In his new book, Castroism, Theory and Practice, besides giving his own convincingly argued interpretation of Castro, he disproves a further myth, namely that Castro is a naive idealist who unfortunately allowed the revolution to be taken out of his hands by the skilled political technicians of the Cuban communist party. From Wordnik.com. [Castro's Revolution] Reference
Did the ideology arise largely as a philosophical construct (e.g. libertarian socialism), or in the heat of a revolution (e.g. early Marxism, Leninism), or as the product of a ruling party (e.g. Castroism, Stalinism), or as the product of a party or other group contending for political power in a democratic society (e.g. social democracy). From Wordnik.com. [Socialism] Reference
There are many things that have been and still are being said against the Cuban Revolution, but it is rare indeed to come across the statement, made by Ernst Halperin in his review of Theodore Draper's Castroism: Theory and Practice, that the standard of living of the Cuban people has seriously declined since Castro came into power on January 1, 1959. From Wordnik.com. [Cuban Revolution] Reference
Street's brief against Obama would apply to every candidate people on this website seem to be considering supporting: that the candidate does not think American power is necessarily a force for bad in the world if exercised appropriately and with restraint; that democratic capitalism and social democracy are more promising systems to foster third world development than Marxism, Chavezism, or Castroism; and that long-established institutions deserve respect. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Obama Successfully Wooing Some Former Hillary Donors] Reference
They plainly do not share the fervid anti-Castroism of their parents. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
I objected to Fidel; I objected also to the feverish hatred of many exiles 'anti-Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Eusebio Penalver was bloodied in his fight with Castroism but unbowed for almost 30 years in its dungeons. From Wordnik.com. [Canada Free Press] Reference
Mythical General Hubris, still informally in charge of official thinking, clung to outdated strategies -- like anti-Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
For decades, Castroism has drawn much of its political legitimacy inside Cuba from nationalist hostility to the unrelenting campaign of US aggression and economic pressure. From Wordnik.com. Reference
When you study Franco thoroughly, he and many of his followers (especially the Falangists) come across as typical resentidos cut from the same cloth as Cuba's resentidos who flocked to Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator] Reference
Thus the nation that won the Cold War, contained the cancer of Castroism in Cuba, liberated Grenada, blocked communist takeovers of Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, and poured scores of billions in aid into this region was left undefended by its own leaders at the Summit of the Americas. From Wordnik.com. [CNSNews.com Headlines] Reference
Those who have attempted over the course of decades to portray Castroism as a new revolutionary road to socialism-and petty-bourgeois guerrillaism as a worthy substitute for the conscious and independent political mobilization of a revolutionary working class-have only helped to besmirch the name of socialism by identifying it with these methods. From Wordnik.com. Reference
(essentially for quoting Martin Luther King and the UN Declaration of Human Rights in a public square), was on a hunger strike against Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
In my second book, Castroism, I made clear my view that "the frame of reference in the United States for the past five years" has been the choice between political bankruptcy and military adventurism "(p. 248). From Wordnik.com. [Haunting] Reference
"Secretary McNamara said quite clearly that we will follow a policy that will result in the elimination from Cuba of Castroism and communism, being careful, at the same time, that communism not be exported from the island to other Latin. From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESSES PURS MEETING] Reference
Nostalgia is overwhelming anti-Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [The Plane People Of Miami] Reference
Castroism hungry quaintly seating osmosis. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Conspiracy Gets Results:] Reference
Castroism and anti-socialism) and the same allies (the United States, anti-communist governments and parties in Europe and other countries). From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Castroism. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism] Reference
Castroism: Theory and Practice by Theodore Draper. From Wordnik.com. [Castro's Revolution] Reference
Castroism and communism. ". From Wordnik.com. [ADDRESSES PURS MEETING] Reference
Is it Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism, Stalinism, Castroism, or Hitlerism?. From Wordnik.com. [Name calling, Obama, and Socialism???] Reference
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