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Socialism With a Human Face or With Goose Pimples? - Karel Tynsky An account by a Czech journalist of the trials convenved to punish those who took part in the protests of the Prague Spring.
Dubcek’s gallant attempt to achieve “socialism with a human face” in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was seen, even at the time, as communism’s last chance to escape from its Stalinist past: an ...
A human face can never be put over that contradiction. It is for that reason that the most inhuman faces are sadly likely to be most successful in confronting the contradiction.
When he returned to the latter post 20 years later, he was still a popular figure, but the possibility of “socialism with a human face” no longer existed.
The president had numerous opportunities to take aim at corporatism in American government. Instead, he ignored it, defended it, and called for its expansion.
A.M. Gittlitz says that aliens would need to be socialist to survive long enough to develop interstellar travel, while Corey Pein argues that socialism is a human concept tied to earthly ...
Mikhail Gorbachev’s goal, according to his associates, was “socialism with a human face.” The belief that communism was reformable was what led him to risk introducing fundamental change ...
One of the most frequent arguments against socialism is that it is incompatible with so-called “human nature.” Those on the right will paint a picture of humanity as selfish, greedy and competitive.
During the period running from the 1956 Budapest uprising to the Prague Spring of 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Heller took a stance in favor of “socialism with a human face.” ...
When he returned to the latter post 20 years later, he was still a popular figure, but the possibility of “socialism with a human face” no longer existed.