Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failing health, desperately wants the book to be finished, and it seems he has some grave personal stake in the matter. A series of flashbacks detail the interactions of a Communist cell in Berlin circa 1928. The major "failing" involved is a missed opportunity to kill Hitler, or so the old man perceives it. The main action in the play, excitingly enough, rotates about the writing of the book, complemented by flashbacks. Erdelyi hires a young college student, well played by Paul Jackel, to assist him, and the two suffer through an alternately close and cold relationship. But just...
Then there is Eurocommunism. With varying degrees of emphasis and sincerity, the Communist parties of Italy, France and Spain have denounced the dictatorship of the proletariat and the Soviet Union as the only true model of Marxism, and have sworn their willingness to co-exist with bourgeois freedoms in pluralistic societies. Skepticism about the depth of these commitments, which could readily be overturned by future leaders less moderate than Spain's Santiago Carrillo or Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, is warranted. Meanwhile, Moscow tries to cope with the reality of three heretical parties that, alas, simply cannot be excommunicated...
...foreign affairs, the Soviet Union also has a flawed record. Since World War II, a dozen countries have come under Communist rule. The mystique of socialism - the dominant ideology of the Third World - has given the Russians close ties there. But somehow the Russians have trouble enlarging their footholds. They seem unpopular nearly everywhere they go. In the Middle East, where they once threatened to become the Big Brother of the Arab world, the Soviets have been kicked out of Egypt; relations with both Syria and Iraq have chilled. Despite ample military aid to leftists in Mozambique, Angola and elsewhere...
...from the International Labor Organization, the oldest United Nations specialized agency (it was founded in 1919 as an arm of the old League of Nations). Although the I.L.O. has been successful in monitoring and improving labor conditions worldwide, it also has become a forum for Third World and Communist attacks against U.S. Middle East policy and especially against Israel. Both the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce favored the pullout-the first American withdrawal from a U.N. agency. The action will wipe out U.S. financial support of the I.L.O., which amounts to about a fourth...
...politics have had no small effect on his life's work, he says, some of the main topics he discusses with his colleagues are "revolutionary politics and problems of power in the world." From the age of 12 he was a Marxist and a member of the Yugoslavian Communist Party. Many of his film-making friends were members of a group they called Creative Marxists. They, like he, had no belief in dogmatic, non-flexible political doctrine...