Word: marxianism
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Simultaneously, Marcus supplements the conventional analytical tools of the critic--close attention to the language and internal structure of texts--with methods drawn from other disciplines, particularly Marxian social theory and Freudian psychoanalysis. Marcus employs all of these methods to interpret each text he reads--whether by Engels, Freud, Dickens or Dashiell Hammett. And in each case, these different levels of analysis are neither entirely separable nor reducible one to the other. For Marcus, the tropes and ambiguities of a writer's language furnish keys to the underlying meaning of his work, to the way his vision of society...
...Communists have deliberately tried to make themselves appealing to a wider spectrum of voters. The Italian and French parties have explicitly disavowed the old Marxian dogma of a dictatorship of the proletariat as well as the need for violent revolution. Instead, they claim to be committed to such democratic principles as political pluralism and freedom of speech and religion. Italian Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer-perhaps Western Europe's most articulate advocate of "socialism with a human face"-has often proclaimed his commitment to "a pluralistic and democratic system." He most recently and dramatically reaffirmed this in Moscow...
...right to block from office a party freely elected by the voters. This argument would have more validity if the Communists differed from other leftist parties merely in their programs. Yet history advises skepticism where Communists are concerned. Unlike Socialists, they have not sought the democratic evolution of a Marxian society; instead, until very recently they have always stressed the radical transformation of a society by authoritarian means...
Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy and faculty adviser to the Sons of Liberty, said yesterday that "it would be desirable to give more exposure to well-developed alternatives to mainstream economic theories" other than Marxian ones...
...left of the Harvard liberals are, of course, the Marxists. Like the Austrians, the Marxists also take a fundamentally different approach to economics than the Chicago and Harvard-based schools of thought. But whether the Marxian approach is an advance or a regression is open to serious debate...