Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the official program, the leaders had come to consider "the most urgent question of our time?the tasks of the anti-imperialist struggle at the present stage and the unity of action of Communist and workers' parties, of all anti-imperialist forces." But the participants knew the real purpose of the meeting. Alarmed by divisions and defiance within Communism, the Soviet Union was out to salvage as much as possible of its once uncontested primacy over the movement...
...suggested action which SDS derived from its analysis was simple: build an alliance between workers and students to stop all expansion by the universities, NASA, and research industries in Cambridge. As the SDS pamphlet, Harvard, Urban Imperialist...
Allen then went into a long harangue explaining the SDS demands. He said that "ROTC must be smashed" because "it supports imperialist exploitation in Watts... and in Vietnam" and that the University's construction projects evicted people from their homes...
...image of the world. This image contained certain well defined components. To these students Harvard University is an integral part of a thoroughly repressive social system. Not only does it service this system with all its experts and elite cadres, but its ruling elements are themselves part of an imperialist ruling class bent on exploiting the entire world. The revolutionary students see themselves as representing the true interests of the popular masses who do not as yet have any true understanding of their own class interests. They remain the victims of a "false consciousness" created by the mass media...
...equation has changed dramatically. With the passing of monolithic Communism, interesting possibilities open up for U.S. diplomacy. The U.S. has tended to look "pro-Russian" in the Sino-Soviet conflict. If that becomes a permanent label, it will only serve to exacerbate Peking's paranoia about collusion between "imperialist" Washington and "revisionist" Moscow...