Word: marxisms
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...store may have once been a Square giant, but now it squeaks by on donations. That change also reflects a shift at Harvard, once a bastion, if not a hotbed, of Marxism...
...Among students and faculty, [Marxism] doesn't cut much ice anymore," says Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack Jr. '59, a self-described Marxist who has been at Harvard since...
...communist thinker simply has a different kind of following now. He's the band Abba, not En Vogue. Marxism these days has appeal "in an odd sort of retro-manner," says Jedediah S. Purdy '97, an editor of Perspective who has studied Marx. "One might use the fashion metaphor that it is equivalent to showing up at a party in your '71 easy rider biker gear. It's a cachet of anachronism...
...countries in 21 languages, a commercial feat rivaled only by Mikhail Gorbachev's "Perestroika" and Madonna's teaser "Sex." Ostling, who says many expected repackaged boilerplate from the Holy See, says the Pope's book actually breaks new ground by providing his personal (if unsurprising) views on abortion, Marxism, competing religions and bad things happening to good people. "What he does," Ostling says, "is take on some of the great existential issues of modern life with an extremely personal, direct piece of evangelism." One tidbit: Did God mastermind communism's fall? The Pope says Russia's 1917 peas
...sold 600,000 copies in France in less than a year, inspired a cadre of ex-radicals eventually known as "The New Philosophers" to issue its own critiques of communism. In Barbarism with a Human Face, for example, Bernard-Henri Levy demanded that French radicals confront the idea that Marxism was inherently corrupt...