But Chávez's grab for socialist-emperor status is grotesque and dangerous — as Fascism was — a terrible example for a region that has been consolidating democracy.
The age of the conviction politician willing to offer socialist alternatives to the status quo, and confident enough to say we don't have to take our broken society as an immutable given, is breaking.
After Marx, socialist thinkers diverged on the status of working-class consciousness.
The organization began as a federation of various regional women's groups with the dual goals of building a socialist China and promoting the status of women.
Even his marriage to Catherine seems predicated less on love than on ideology, his growing sensitivity to the people of the Caribbean — and, perhaps, to his own outsider status, as a socialist-minded Irishman in service to a British king.
Many of Hungary's 100,000 or so Jews, the largest such community in Central Europe, sound nervous.Nationalism isn't always malevolentWorries over the status law, which the Socialists voted for too, may, however, be overblown.
The status quo is now an ostensibly socialist one, and repression is being meted out by those with clinging to increasingly flimsy claim to represent 'el pueblo'.
Arnaud Montebourg, who was sacked by François Hollande as France's economy and industry minister at the start of this week, has suddenly acquired martyr status by being banished to opposition in the socialist president's latest purge of the left.
During this visit, Friedman gave a lecture at the University of Iceland on the "Tyranny of the Status Quo," and debated the country's leading socialist intellectuals--including current president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson.
Earlier this year he took pride in his self-proclaimed status as the first congressman to call Obama a "socialist".
Park Hill's status has changed gradually from a source of intense municipal socialist pride to dilapidated sink estate.
