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...finding beautiful women draped around your calves begging for a one-night meaningful experience. From the inside-of Woody Allen's head-celebrity is all of this, and ain't it awful? It means being introduced to a woman who wrote "the definitive cinematic study of Gummo Marx." It means being offered unproducible scripts, including a musical-comedy treatment of the Guyana massacre. It means being solicited to join committees for Soviet dissidents, to help stamp out leukemia, to donate a personal item to a celebrity auction for the blind ("Somebody told me you wear a truss...
...germ to wipe out left-wing violence and terrorism and to restore society to "normalcy." The germ proved effective, "destroying" every person and group capable of violence. But the germ itself used terror and it still exists, thriving today on even the most innocent citizens--the teacher who mentioned Marx to a class once, or siblings of those associated with leftists groups, and on journalists. "I think there are no other words for it but state terrorism against terrorism because we panicked in Argentina. Everything broke down," he says...
Dissenters must lead a double life. One family had a secret door in their closet where they hid such "subversive" material as banned Argentine Julio Cortazar's novels, Marx's complete works, and New York Times articles about Argentine repression. Although they vocally criticized the government in their apartment, in public cafes with friends they hyperbolically praised Videla's political policies. "You can't trust anyone," they explained...
...scientific concept of the dictatorship [of the proletariat] means nothing other than unlimited government unrestrained by any laws or any absolute rules and supporting itself directly by force." Marx said that after a Communist revolution, the state would wither away. Wrong; it has grown and overgrown, with a bureaucratic luxuriance...
...purely Marxian fash ion: proletarians rising up against the oppressors who contra the means of production. They have very far to go. The strikers now seem oddly like 19th century workers in Western Europe and the U.S. in the first stages of unionism. But perhaps there is hope. As Marx himself wrote in 1875, "The emancipation of Poland is one of the conditions for the emancipation of the working class of all Europe...