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...base and back-to-the-land rhetoric--sprang up in the late nineteenth century to challenge the growing capitalism which was to destroy its social powers. The Communist movement in politics and culture in the 1930's depression days tried to integrate this American remembrance with a future-oriented Marxism consider Grandpa Joad's line in The Grapes of Wrath "I' m stickin' with my farm until Idie"), and Woody Guthrie's "Roll On Columbia." In which he applauds "Tom Jefferson's vision" which "could not let him rest"--that vision being the endless expansion of American farmland westward...
...couple of us waded in the shallow part of the water. Two dark Cubans came over and began a conversation in very broken English. Both were university students interested in the sciences. One fellow was studying physics, geology, English, Spanish literature, Chemistry and Marxism-Leninism. The other was preparing to become a doctor. Lifting weights was their favorite sport. We asked whether or not they listened to radio stations from the United States. They smiled and the taller one, with difficulty, explained that the U.S. government was constantly broadcasting in Cuba, urging the people to resist "the evils of Communism...
...whereas the previous experience with government had produced a certain level of political sophistication among Argentine and Brazilian military leaders, in Chile the military junta, on September 11, found itself in an unfamiliar position. Insulated from politics for decades, it had developed a parochial mentality comprised of intense anti-Marxism, a distrust of partisan politics, a craving for order and unity, and a puritanical morality. Reeling on the giddy heights of political power, the Chilean armed forces concentrated on both a justification of its intervention as well as a brutal repression of those working against what...
...science of Marxism is not readily apparent in the shop or the ghetto. Without a student core there is never a revolutionary movement. There has to be a vanguard party," Drummond said
...prime historic target is revolutionary ideology, because of its power to subvert private conscience, encouraging men to see their fellow men as "insects" (Lenin's word) to be virtuously crushed for the good of the cause. It was in the name of Marxism-Leninism that the horrors of Gulag were visited upon the Russian people. The book is one of the most overwhelming attacks on the practical applications of that ideology ever written. What Solzhenitsyn urges in another remarkable document, Letter to the Soviet Leaders, is that the Soviet government abandon its ideology entirely...