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Whatever strength the party possesses in Western Europe comes largely from what Italian Author Luigi Barzini describes as "the voters, millions of them, who know practically nothing of Marxism but are vaguely attracted by what they know as the poor people's natural party." What makes things difficult for the Communists is that while they are seeking to satisfy this constituency, they are also reaching for middle-class votes by cultivating an aura of bourgeois respectability. This opens them to sniping from young-and old-radicals on their left. In the meantime, despite continuing opposition from conservatives, most European...
...Russian. Nikita Khrushchev says Stalin called his daughter Svetlanka. But in Russian the ending nka is usually used in talking to pets, as in Anton Chekhov's story about the dog Kashtanka. Stalin's daughter says her father always called her Svetochka. Since Stalin, the author of Marxism and Linguistics, fancied himself an expert on the Russian language, as on everything else, it still may be hard to argue with...
STRUCTURALISM is best introduced by examining the social theories outside anthropology that shaped Levi-Strauss's early development. Both Marxism and psychoanalysis demonstrated to him that understanding consists in reducing one reality to another; "that the true reality is not the obvious reality." As Leach makes clear, these same assumptions underpin Levi-Strauss's claim that there are universal structures that apply to all societies, though they are frequently hidden. The job left for the structuralism is the refinement of his method with new and broader applications aimed at new ways of handling cultural data...
...threatened by Marxism in Latin America? The feudal landowners? The reactionary church? The rich American corporations? Surely not the great masses of workers and peasants...
...what end? The new urban guerrilla talks in vague terms about building a new world. When pressed, he usually describes that world in Marxist terms (although Marxism considers itself "scientific" and by and large holds "romantic" terrorists in contempt). Beyond some immediate goals, like preserving a particular piece of real estate from "exploitation" or "imperialism," the urban guerrilla has little to say about the shape of the future. Says Political Scientist Richard