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Popular revolts, riots, & uprisings, which frequently shake the communist regimes in central & Eastern Europe, have been confined to the northern part of the continent. There have been no mass revolts in Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, or Yugoslavia. This is not an accident of geography, but a product of different political & cultural conditions, which can be reduced to a single fundamental relationship between a political entity, the state, & a cultural entity, the nation. In the North, the relationship between the Western nation & anti-Western state is one of fundamental contradiction & antagonism. In the South, the antagonism between the nation & the state is weaker, because of non-Western culture, traditions, & history; there, opposition to the communist state exists at individual or group levels, but has not yet been organized & institutionalized at the national level as in the North. The conflict between the state & the nation has been strongest in Poland, a struggle that has produced a series of continuous political crises. Modified AA

"In the 1930s, when the competitive, free market system lay in ruins and the competing systems of fascism and communism were gaining strength, the Antigonish Movement emerged offering a "middle way." The movement favoured putting in place an integrated and dynamic system based on cooperative economic institutions under the control of the people.