Word: marxianity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priest called all parties together for a raffle, and the united effort yielded 70,000 lire. Then dissension began. The Communists and the Christian Democrats each wanted sole credit for restoring the people's clock. They battled each other step by step through a fog of imprecations and Marxian dialectic until, via interminable compromises, the clock was eventually restored...
...three erring Communists knew just what to do. They immediately issued a standard confession, admitting their error and endorsing their own censure. This reversal reminded the Ceylon Daily News of another Marxian "crisis" wherein Groucho, feeling the pulse of an unconscious woman, looks up at his audience and says, "Either this woman is dead or my watch has stopped...