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...industrially advanced nations, as the inevitable culmination of capitalist development. Lenin demonstrated that a successful Socialist revolution could take place in a backward, predominantly peasant country-thereby turning Communism into a practical program that could be applied to the underdeveloped world rather than to Europe alone. The economics of Marxism are hopelessly antiquated today, and its appeal as a secular religion is surpassed by that of nationalism. That Marxism continues to survive as a movement is a tribute to Lenin, who transformed a social theory into a plan of political action...
...Sino-Soviet conflict by challenging Moscow's claim to be the only true interpreter of Lenin's thoughts. Lately the Chinese have been emphasizing that Mao Tse-tung has carried Lenin's theories to a "higher and completely new stage" by integrating "the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism with the concrete practice of revolution." In apparent anticipation of the centennial, the Chinese party has attributed the "theoretical basis" of its thinking to something called "Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung thought." It is an inventive bit of phrasemaking that definitely one-ups the Russians. While the Soviets have...
Died. Anna Louise Strong, 84, Nebraska-born writer and unswerving servant first of Soviet and then Chinese Communism; of heart disease; in Peking. Miss Strong became devoted to Marxism while touring Russia with a relief mission in the '20s and spent the rest of her life glorifying it-first from the Soviet Union, where she edited the English language Moscow Daily News and after World War II from Communist China, where she extolled Chairman Mao in a monthly publication Letter from China...
...Folklore was to me the soil on which literature grew." he said. "It is true that folklore contains a lot of foolish things, but it also contains grains of truth which are eternal. I am sure that a hundred years from now they will consider psychoanalysis folklore. And perhaps Marxism also...
...reason was that the Liberal Democrats, who have ruled almost without a break since the occupation, looked like certain winners (and in fact won an overwhelming 300 of 486 Diet seats). The Socialists once gave promise of becoming an effective opposition, but they are still promoting a shopworn Marxism that does not sound too magnetic to Japan's increasingly affluent workers...