Word: marxianity
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...violent demonstrations would be sufficient torque to bring success to the movement. Out of this doubt evolved the decisions by SCLC. SNCC, and other Southern-based groups to become involved in more direct political action. Out of this doubt also came Angela Davis's own conversion to Marxian, and her ultimate embracement of the Communist Party...
...nervous and cowed when faced with a teacher who has the power to mar their college record. Spontaneity and cheerful effort disappear, to be replaced by rote memorization and dreary cramming, or so the argument goes. The most ambitious of the critics have even managed, in good Marxian fashion, to link the dog-eat-dog competition for grades with the ruthless struggles in America's business world...
HENRI MATISSE by Louis Aragon. 2 vols., 721 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $75. The publication of this eccentric, often brilliant, book was one of the major events in the French art world. Aragon, whose talent as a poet-novelist has long been buried under his notoriety as a Marxian apologist, met Matisse in 1941, and until the painter died in 1954 spent hours in his studio at Cimiez talking about the creative process. It took Aragon 27 years to put together his notes on those conversations and Matisse's comments. Aragon can be the most digressive of writers. Luckily...
That task is the most radical aspect of the new, post-Marxian history, and it has two major consequences. It displaces the idea of the present subject who can transcend the limitations of time by organizing and "understanding" history, and thus recover the past intact. It also breaks down the notion of continuous history based on the flow of cause and effect, on social or cultural analogy, or, ultimately, on the necessary unfolding of an ideal pattern...
...plan differs from other in-the-system attempts of the past. This is not the old, temporary Communist plan of submerging your ideology and supporting moderates against potential "fascists." Instead, it stresses presenting your ideology (as concretized in the blueprints) as the most important part of the strategy; (In Marxian terms, the search is for "ideological hegemony.") Nor, as I said earlier, is this a plan for supporting the "best candidates" or "good liberals." Nor is this a plan where you expect to win any time soon, in which case you are tempted to run only slightly to the "left...