Word: leninist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marxist Consummation. It can hardly be pleased. In his book, Djilas assails not only the bureaucracy but also the whole theoretical Marxist-Leninist underpinning of the Communist state. Marxism cannot be revised, he declares; it must be discarded altogether. He parts company with those moderate Marxists-including a number of American college students-who are trying to salvage what they can from Marxism after its corruption by Soviet totalitarianism. To Djilas, the two are inseparable. For him, Stalin was not a ruthless aberration but the inevitable consummation of Marxism: theory made practice. The ironclad Marxist system is all but useless...
Lasch's proposal, of course, is based on the simple premise that no Leninist revolution is possible in the United States, and that therefore radical change can only come about by creating a radical mass movement. Lasch's movement would be spearheaded by the intellectuals from the universities whose lives would be devoted to the posing of social alternatives. Their success would eventually be due to the demonstrable superiority of those alternatives...
...more serious were charges in the authoritative magazine Kommunist to the effect that today the military controls China and excludes the "broad masses of the working people" from any effective role. "The group of Mao Tse-tung," said Kommunist, "has deserted Marxist-Leninist principles." Translated from the jargon, that means that Moscow has read Peking out of the Communist movement. The Soviets are working manfully to persuade other Communist parties to agree to ratify that decision at the forthcoming international party conference in May, and the Chinese are sure to be discussed at this week's Warsaw Pact summit...
...from Dirk Bogarde as Bibikov, the court-assigned defender of the fixer. Wearing a fine mask of melancholy disdain, he grows gradually more revulsed by the corruption he witnesses in the palace of justice; his actions and his death predict the fall of the Romanovs as surely as any Leninist edict...
...Soviet anthology of spy stories contains a stirring Abel call for KGB recruits. "The best representatives of our youth are going into intelligence work that requires the creative acquisition of the Marxist-Leninist theory, a general educational background and a broad spiritual outlook." That might seem questionable to Russians who witnessed the demonstration against the Czechoslovak invasion in Red Square last August, when a gang of young KGB operatives brutally mauled the demonstrators...