Word: maoists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberation of the whole of Angola and to renounce tribalism officially. The FNLA, who now welcome the anti-tribalist influence of the Portugese occupation, claim that there is only one FNLA minister who speaks the Bakongo language, and have attracted to their ranks Daniel Chipenda, a pro-Maoist Ovimbundu from the southeast who split from the MPLA last year with 3000 men. But they have previously failed in efforts to win over the Ovimbundu and Cabindan tribes. In any event, the FNLA is still firmly anchored among the Bakongo, many of whom view Roberto as the heir of the Kongolese...
Among many educated young people in capitalist countries, Maoist China is popular because its communes have created the world's closest approach to true income equality, though at the price of numbing regimentation. The only way to reach total economic equality is at the expense of freedom (see TIME ESSAY), but the U.S. has more inequality than seems necessary for a dynamic economy. Any attempt even to reduce significantly the gap between income classes raises the unanswerable question of just how much inequality is necessary to provide incentive. A significant effort to redistribute income would provoke fierce resistance from politically...
...folded by a Portuguese airman and entrusted to a Portuguese soldier. Then three African soldiers in starched fatigues ran up the new flag of the People's Republic of Mozambique. As tribal dancers beat animal-skin drums and a 21-gun salute boomed outside Machava Stadium, the militantly Maoist President of the new state, Samora Moises Machel, 41, embraced Portuguese Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves. Thus ended 477 years of Lisbon's colonial presence in an African territory that until 15 months ago the Portuguese had vowed they would never surrender...
...Lourenço Marques, efficiency is down 80% and pilferage has doubled in the past year. "What worries me," said a black civil servant, "is that Machel doesn't, seem to care if the standard of living falls here. In fact I think it fits in with his Maoist ideas. Maybe the camaradas [comrades] will take it in the countryside, but sooner or later he will have an urban revolt on his hands...
...there has been an impressive 3% yearly increase in crop output. Mechanization has not yet made much headway, and work in the fields is as backbreaking as it has been for centuries. "For years the West has had an urban preoccupation," says a senior South Korean official, sounding vaguely Maoist. "Yet in modern Asian history it has been the peasantry which has been the moving force. We have tilted the allocation of resources toward the countryside...