That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

If the Communists are sincere in wanting a united, neutral and disarmed Germany, it might well be advantageous for the German people in this nuclear age.

It might be argued that the Communists are less inhuman than the Nazis and furnish the artist with drama in a lower key.

As the system in Czech repeatedly produces very weak governments ( a specific problem is that about 15 % of the electorate support the Communists, who are shunned by all the other parties ) there is constant talk about changing it but without much chance of really pushing the reform through.

On the article by Max Baginski called " Stirner: The Ego and His Own " published in the American anarchist magazine Mother Earth there is the following affirmation " Modern Communists are more individualistic than Stirner.

If they did, however, too familiar are the mind-annihilating methods of these Communists in extorting whatever words they want ....

Communists are not opposed to personal property that is " hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned " ( Communist Manifesto ) by members of the proletariat.

He proclaimed his regime one of " positive neutralism ," defined as a return to African values and rejection of any imported ideology, including that of the Soviet Union: " We are not Communists, Catholics, Socialists.

Criticising the Communists, he justified the electoral cancellation by claiming that the 1956 elections would be " meaningful only on the condition that they are absolutely free ", despite his numerically impossible tally in the 1955 contest.

The Communists and the Greens are in coalition as the Unitarian Democratic Coalition.

He stated: " You know who my friends are ; you will have to ask them if they are Communists.

In 1953 he thought the Rosenbergs should be executed, stating " Traitors are never ordinary criminals and the Rosenbergs are quite obviously fiercely loyal Communists ....

The impression The Brown Book gives is that Communists are victims of Nazism, and the only victims.

In addition, the second section deals with the Reichstag fire, which is described as a Nazi plot to frame the Communists, who are represented as the most dedicated opponents of Nazism.

This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die.

Welch rejected these accusations by his detractors: " All we are interested in here is opposing the advance of the Communists, and eventually destroying the whole Communist conspiracy, so that Jews and Christians alike, and Mohammedans and Buddhists, can again have a decent world in which to live.

* Bob Dylan wrote " Talkin ' John Birch Paranoid Blues ", narrated by a paranoid society member who looks everywhere for Communists, even in his toilet bowl and at one point decides that they are in his television set.

A squad of American soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed by Communists.

The distribution of Resistance is free although usually donations are requested, the audience also includes many unaffiliated Anarchists, Communists and workers.

The early councilists are followed later by the Group of Internationalist Communists, Henk Meijer, Cajo Brendel and Paul Mattick, Sr.

The Macedonian people are today fighting for this independent united state with a coequal position and is helping the DSE with all its soul ..." The policy of self-determination for Macedonia within a People's Republic was reiterated during the 5th KKE Central Committee meeting held in January 1949, which declared that the " Macedonian people participating in the liberation struggle would find their full national re-establishment as they want giving their blood for this acquisition ... Macedonian Communists should pay great attentions to foreign chauvinist and counteractive elements that want to break the unity between the Greek and Macedonian people.

In Konin there are absolutely amazing, complete remains of what beliefs of Communists could bring to architecture-they are reflected in entire districts being built at that time with specifis array of streets and unique, morbid a little bit atmosphere of the town.

Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.

There is little optimism here that the Communists will be any more docile at the conference table than they were in military actions on the ground in Laos.

But the Communists aided the Pathet Lao at an even faster rate.

But the Communists never gave sufficient provocation at any one time for the United States to want to risk a limited or an all-out war over Laos.

But he was convinced that the realities of power -- military, economic and ideological -- were the decisive factors in the struggle with the Communists and that these could not be talked away at a heads of government meeting.

" Furthermore, the author received much hate mail from Communists both at home and abroad.

On 23 January 1990 at its 14th Congress the Communist League of Yugoslavia voted to remove its monopoly on political power, but the same day effectively ceased to exist as a national party when the League of Communists of Slovenia walked out after Serbia's Slobodan Milošević blocked all their reformist proposals – the League of Communists of Croatia walked out soon after.

After Guangdong fell to the Communists, Chiang relocated the government to Chongqing, while Li effectively surrendered his powers and flew to New York for treatment of his chronic duodenum illness at the Hospital of Columbia University.

Eleven thousand Communists and Socialists were arrested and brought into hastily prepared concentration camps such as Kemna concentration camp, where they were at the mercy of the Gestapo, the newly established secret police force ( 9, 000 were found guilty and most executed ).

Another notable ( and defiant ) phrase in the speech was also spoken in German, " Lass ' sie nach Berlin kommen " (" Let them come to Berlin ")-- addressed at those who claimed " we can work with the Communists ", a remark which Nikita Khrushchev scoffed at only days later.

He summoned 60 gauleiters and party leaders, including Goebbels, to a meeting at Bamberg, in Streicher ’ s Gau of Franconia, where he gave a two-hour speech repudiating the political programme of the northern wing of the Party which saw themselves as having more in common with the Communists than the " bourgeoisie ".

Senator Joseph McCarthy was pursuing Communists at the time, and Cecil B. DeMille was one of his supporters ; another Best Picture nominee, High Noon, was produced by Carl Foreman, who would soon be on the Hollywood blacklist.

I was behaving treacherously to the Group when I met downtown at CP Party headquarters, to decide among the Communists what we should do in the Group, and then come back and present a united front, pretending we had not been in caucus ...

While he was at first pleased by positive relations with white Communists in Chicago, he was later humiliated in New York City by some who rescinded an offer to find housing for Wright because of his race.

Without pointing fingers at the Soviet Union, Mao criticized their ideological ally, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, while the Soviets returned the favour by proxy via criticizing the Party of Labour of Albania, a Chinese ally.

He placed himself in the position of being the man to save Positive Christianity from utter destruction at the hands of the atheistic antitheist Communists of the Soviet Union.

15 of the group's members became Communists for at least some time, and the group remained close later on.

The reasons for Zhou's sudden release may have been that Zhou was then the most senior Communist in Shanghai, that Chiang's efforts to exterminate the Shanghai Communists were highly secretive at the time, and that his execution would have been noticed as a violation of the cooperation agreement between the CCP and the KMT ( which was technically still in effect ).

After the rise of the PCI of Enrico Berlinguer at the 1976 general elections, when the Communists scored 34, 4 % of the votes, Moro conceived the idea of a " national solidarity " cabinet, whose parliamentary base should include the PCI as well.

They also recruited troops at a brutal pace from the civilian population and hoarded supplies, preparing for a resumption of war with the Communists.