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Poles have revolted countless times against their oppressors, only to fail heroically. Almost every generation of Poles for the past century and a half has risen in arms. This penchant for rebellion?evident again in Solidarity?prompted Karl Marx to call Poland the "thermometer of the intensity and vitality of all revolutions since 1789." Successive occupations and uprisings, moreover, gave Poles a deep-rooted mistrust of foreign-imposed governments and sharpened their skills at organizing broad-based conspiracies. It also increased their pride in the past. Many of Solidarity's buttons show the Polish eagle adorned with the crown that...
...Marx's theory, in Soviet practice, is both dangerous and in danger...
...move. The Polish party is deeply demoralized after losing an estimated one-third of its 3 million members during the past year. It is distressing to the entire Communist world for a country's armed forces to become more powerful than its Politburo. That is a contradiction of Karl Marx's warning to avoid such "bonapartism" by ensuring that the party be always supreme. Thus the rebuilding of the party, and how strong he chooses to make it, is one of the interesting tasks facing Jaruzelski...
...Marx would hate Space Invaders and its appended bourgeois junkies. It would probably alienate...
...Sagan was uninspiring, unprepared and spoke off the top of his head," Rufus Marx said, adding that this year's class should find someone who would take the job more seriously...