Word: marxisms
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...vaguely magical. The humble ones avoid talking about themselves--their goals and their techniques--and this reticence leaves their occupation swathed in mystery. Sartre has patiently tried to explain the process of writing; he disects literature continuously and intently in the essays, lectures and interviews of Between Existentialism and Marxism...
...Latin America with the peasants' cause. This is partly due to the influence of "liberation theology," which uses Marxist economic analysis and argues that an important part of salvation is making common cause with the struggles of the poor. The clergy in Honduras deny any link with Marxism; yet virtually all the priests are known to back the peasants' efforts to get land of their own. Since 90% of the priests are foreigners (from France, Spain, Canada, the U.S. and Latin America), the nominally Catholic landowners can more freely accuse them of being Communists, of mobilizing the peasantry...
...fast enough, radical officers readily turned to Gonçalves, who became Premier. He refuses to say whether or not he has ever been a member of the Communist Party, and, in fact, many foreign observers who have met him are convinced that he has some muddled notions about Marxism and that many of his economic ideas are hopelessly simplistic. But there is no doubt that he is the chief spokesman for Communist interests within the M.F.A...
...short-lived Angolan Communist Party. Though it is influential with diverse groups such as the cotton-producing Mbundu a tribesmen of the hinterland northeast of Luanda, the MPLA draws the bulk of its support from the urban poor of the muceques, the black slums which ring Luanda. The Marxism of the MPLA, with its sophisticated critique of neo-colonialism, racialism and tribalism, attracts support in those areas where Portuguese economic influence penetrated most deeply, dissolving traditional tribal social life through urban enterprise, the free market and administrative bureaucracy...
...before them, will face at least some antagonism from a welter of independent political and religious groupings: the Buddhists, the Catholics, the anti-Communist politicians. "The Cao Dai and Hoa Hao in particular are quite hostile to the Communists," observes Harvard Asian Scholar Alexander Woodside. "The Hoa Hao view Marxism as a Western creed, and they view themselves as standing for the residual culture of old Viet Nam. There has been a virtual blood feud between them and the Communists...