Word: maoists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stands out as a bizarre and incoherent group. It began in 1970 as a rightist movement supporting former Military Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who ruled Colombia from 1953 to 1957. The strongly nationalist organization gradually incorporated leftists; its current ranks, according to a U.S. intelligence report, include Castroite, Guevarist, Maoist and Trotskyite revolutionaries...
...posthumous rehabilitation of Liu was another triumph for one of his closest allies-China's all-powerful Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Nor was that all. The Central Committee announced the resignation from the Politburo of four radical holdovers from the Maoist era who had participated in the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution campaign against Liu and Deng. Purged were Wang Dongxing, Mao's former bodyguard, Vice Premiers Chen Xilian and Ji Dengkui, and Wu De, a former mayor of Peking...
...extraordinary that Jane Fonda should be represented by the media as representing the extreme left of the Democratic Party when, in fact, she is just an old-fashioned Maoist. Suddenly her point of view is being legitimized as being within the democratic spectrum," he added...
...Karmal has been a Marxist ever since his days as a student at Kabul University; his graduation was delayed by a stint in prison for left-wing agitation. His Parcham Party always leaned more dependably toward Moscow than Taraki's more broadly based faction, which sometimes espoused a Maoist-flavored brand of Marxism. Says former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Robert Neumann: "Karmal is the original Communist, a dyed-in-the-wool article...