When they aren't harassing Gina as a "sodomite," Myra Schapen and her belligerent brood are railing against the "communist" notion of a co-op farmers' market and hatching plots to undermine their neighbors, the Grelliers, whose more tolerant ways just plain get under their skin.
Yet like many older Russians, for whom the communist notion of 'new Soviet man' was an ideal of citizenship and responsibility, he has complicated feelings about the changes he has lived through.
On the right, McCarthyism promoted paranoid notions of communist infiltration of American institutions; on the left is the belief that the terrorist attacks of September 11 , 2001 were an "inside job" perpetrated by a cabal of government and corporate interests.
In the wake of the liberation of Eastern Europe, the end of the U.S.S.R., and the breakup of Yugoslavia and the resulting wars, Godard made a film that was partly of metaphysical inspiration — God's surreptitious arrival on earth — and partly of sociopolitical import: the demise of the Communist ideal and the notion of a cultural legacy, not least, that of the cinema itself.
In the context of a return to Confucian moral principles in a post-Communist age, the notion of filial piety (孝, xiào) has played a large role in defining intergenerational relationships (Ikeda 2004; Barbalet 2014), and it has been strongly promoted in mass media, as well as in law (Bell 2008).
ReprintsChina's Communist bosses rely on Maoist notions of ethical leadership and, implicitly, on a Confucian mandate supposedly bestowed by heaven for their righteousness.
But the Communist bureaucracy still resists the notion that this has to involve creating wealthy people.
Today's verdicts reflect the reality that in this Communist dictatorship publicly raising the notion of alternative political systems still carries risks.
While remaining faithful to Lenin's notion of the communist party as the revolutionary vanguard, Mao proceeded to lead a guerilla movement that established its power base among the peasantry, which he regarded as a rural proletariat.
The experience of '68 would turn him first radical and then, briefly, Maoist — this was when the illusions of Maoism suggested that it might be a populist alternative to the Stalinism of the French Communist party, a crazy-seeming notion now, but you kind of had to be there.
