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Book Review: Communism

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Communism: A History by Richard Pipes (New York: The Modern Library, 2001); 175 pages; $19.95. IT SEEMS HARD TO BELIEVE that it is already more than 10 years since the collapse and disappearance of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It was only about 10 years earlier, in 1981, that the conservative French social critic Jean-François Revel first published his book How Democracies Perish, in which he concluded that the international victory of communism had to be taken as a serious possibility. The ideological fervor of the Marxists in Third World countries and the military might of the Soviet Union was a formidable global menace, especially in comparison with the philosophical and cultural bankruptcy of the Western nations, who seemed unwilling to defend the tenets of political democracy or economic liberalism. And earlier, in 1967, at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, New York Times correspondent Harrison Salisbury edited a collection of essays by Times reporters entitled The ...

A Devotion to Democracy?

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What’s with the love fest between U.S. officials and army generals? We have, of course, (retired) Army General Colin Powell serving as U.S. secretary of state. And we have (or will have) military tribunals manned by army officials, rather than jury trials by civilians, for foreigners accused of terrorism. There is Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani army general who was an ardent supporter of the Taliban — he took over the Pakistani government by ousting the democratically elected president in a coup and now, with the support of the U.S. government, refuses to call elections. Several days ago, U.S. officials implicitly endorsed (and possibly even supported) an army coup in Venezuela, where military officials unsuccessfully attempted to oust the democratically elected president, Hugo Chavez. And let’s not forget the U.S. government’s role in ousting the democratically elected president of Guatemala in the 1950s, which ultimately brought on a civil war resulting ...

The War on Terrorism

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With the publication of the first issue of Freedom Daily in January 1990, we made a vow that we have repeated every year since then: Never will we compromise that which we consider to be right and true. Since then, as long-time supporters and subscribers know, we have never hesitated to fulfill that vow, no matter what the cost to this foundation. Today, we are facing the biggest challenge we have ever faced here at FFF: how to state clearly, directly, and unequivocally where we stand on the issue, but at the same time keeping in mind the horrific nature of what has happened. We are, of course, not unmindful of the horrible pain, shock, grief, and nervousness that people are experiencing that prevents them from calmly and dispassionately considering intellectual arguments. Thus, the challenge we face is not with whether to share our truth in the midst of this crisis, ...