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...first section of the book, a set of biblical tales retold, Kolakowski puts the original ambiguities into the Marxist-Leninist idiom. While this sounds reductionist, the effect is quite the reverse. Kolakowski is so faithful to and concerned with the problematic paradox of Hebraic legend that he exaggerates the difficulties to the point where, for sheer ambivalence, his tales rival even the parables of Kafka. Translated into the lingo of current ideological strife, the Old Testament acquires an applicability most have long given up suspecting. To take his own best illustration, Kolakowski turns the story of Jacob and Esau into...
Some party cadres come to the school because it has been suggested in their group sessions at home that they can do with a little ideological honing. Others apply simply because they want to. "I think my Marxist-Leninist level is quite low," explains Chao Kuei-wu, 46. "I need more practice in the fields to do more labor." Chao, who is married and has four children, receives his regular $35-a-month salary as the manager of a Peking canteen while attending the May Seventh school. He goes home once a month for four days to visit his family...
...merely an armed truce rather than a period of genuinely relaxed tensions. For those caught inside the East-bloc borders it will also be a period of repression and pretense. TIME'S Strobe Talbott talked to one East-bloc professor and author, who shrugged: "We have to chant Marxist-Leninist slogans because otherwise our leaders would get worried that the system that gives them their power is in danger. And if they begin to worry seriously that detente means an end to their own power, they'll never go ahead with all the treaties and agreements [with the West...
...Right sides of the Iron and Bamboo curtains(remember them?) Lawrence Harvey is a Korean War brainwashed by Red Chinese is become an assassin-on-request. But the plot is not as it seems, for the actual conspiracy which controls him is a union of yellow and white Leninist`s with McCarthyites. Frank Sinatra plays the good guy in the film, an Army buddy of Harvey's who senses something's wrong. The foreign agents' dialogue is amusingly epigrammatic, the film in general is suspenseful and funny...
...Some Democrats can support some of these demands; the program is directed to the mass of the American people," Powers said. "But if the program were implemented, it would have to mean a social revolution." As a Marxist-Leninist party, the SWP hopes to lead the revolution it is sure is coming...