Communism

The NY Times Plugs Maoist Tourist Spot in China: 'Red Is Far From Dead'

Um, hooray? New York Times reporter Edward Wong reports on a Maoist tourist spot in China where "young professionals...rekindle their long-lost sense of class struggle and proletarian principles." ...

Times Plugs Maoist Tourist Spot in China: 'Red Is Far From Dead'

Um, hooray? Edward Wong reports on a Maoist tourist spot in China where "young professionals...rekindle their long-lost sense of class struggle and proletarian principles." The millions wiped out ...

The New York Times Cozies up to Playful Communists in Manhattan

For some reason, the New York Times finds a local group of Communists positively cuddlesome: "If communists have a reputation for anything, it is seriousness. (And if you have seen old photos of ...

Cozying up to Playful Communists in Manhattan

For some reason, the Times finds a local group of Communists positively cuddlesome: "If communists have a reputation for anything, it is seriousness. (And if you have seen old photos of Karl Marx, ...

The New York Times Remembers the 'Good Life' for Many in the 'Socialist State' of East Germany

New York Times reporter Michael Slackman on the disillusionment felt by some East Germans over reunification: "Yet no one here is whitewashing the disappointment, the sense even now, two decades ...

Remembering the 'Good Life' for Many in the 'Socialist State' of East Germany

Michael Slackman on the disillusionment felt by some East Germans over reunification: "Yet no one here is whitewashing the disappointment, the sense even now, two decades later, of feeling treated ...

Director Kazan's 'Naming Names' Lumped in With Anti-Semitism, Murder

"Naming names" as bad as exploiting teen daughters and anti-Semitism? Arts reporter Randy Kennedy ponders the evils of exposing Communists and defenders of Stalinist tyranny: "Should we think 'On ...

Friedman Chided for Idealizing China - By the Chinese

Thomas Friedman: "Some of my Chinese friends chide me for overidealizing China. I tell them: 'Guilty as charged.'"

Times Again Leaves Out Communism in Coverage of Khmer Rouge Atrocities

Seth Mydans' reports from Cambodia on the verdict in the trial of a Khmer Rouge jailer, but fails to explain or even mention the ideology that motivated the Communist group to kill almost two ...

Let's Pick Another Metaphor, Shall We?

"[Bruce Cumings] mows down a host of myths about the war in his short new book, which is a distillation of his own scholarship and that of many other historians. But he begins by mowing down David ...
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