Word: marxianity
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...been, he admits, too kind about Lenin's character.) But he shows no regret for not having carried the story further. How right he was. The book does not emphasize, but is dramatically explicit about the horrors of Stalinism. It is also perceptive about those aspects of Marxian theory and practice that bode ill for revolution: the assumption that unlike other classes, the working classes once in power will act justly; the double standard of moral behavior that justifies any cruelty for those working with history's revolutionary blessing. But further speculations about whether a Stalinist tyranny could...
...class struggle," said the socialists' congress, has so sharpened in Latin America that there remain "only two possibilities: dependent capitalism and underdevelopment, or socialism." The participants emphasized that they want to use Marxian economic and social analysis as a tool to transform society, but do not accept philosophical Marxism's doctrine of atheistic materialism. It "does not mean for Christians an abandonment of their faith, but rather gives renewed impetus to their hopes in the future of Christ...
...toward a natural piety and spiritual brotherhood in a time admittedly cut off from religion and nature may possibly be the single most significant struggle in recent U.S. history. But Reich's attempt to use historical perspective to lend the advent of Consciousness III sensibility a sense of Marxian inevitability is a failure. Perhaps this is because, while he pretends to exhaustive analysis, he deliberately ignores the one essential issue involved. The success or failure of a return to the Garden of Eden -even with Adam and Eve played by bright and well-favored Yale men and their dates...
...express no class-consciousness. It took the Kent State massacre to bring Neil Young down from his "Helpless, helpless, helpless" ness into the high-energy world of "Four Dead In Ohio." The title of The Dead's new album is somewhat deceptive-"Workingman's Dead" is neither the Marxian manifesto set to music nor the high-energy level music produced by the fists of labor (Dead fans will be glad to know that Garcia is alive and well, sunk in country funk...
...begin unlearning the current culture at its roots. The collective attempt to show you the way both the language of words and the language of cinema have shaped us and what must be cha(lle)nged. The authority of See You at Mao stems from an accurate application of Marxian rhetoric to contemporary image, from an unpretentious sound-image montage, and from the use of the camera as Vertov's "Kine-Eye" which sees all and knows everything...