Word: marxisms
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What was different about the late '60s was thatour elders listened to us, nodded their heads atout vulgar Marxism or whatever it was and said,"Right on!" They put us on the cover of Time. Theybelieved that Wordsworth stuff about "The child isthe father...
...years after Camus's death. His pained middle position on the Algerian question -- deploring the atrocities committed by both sides -- drew scorn from the right and left, particularly Sartre and his circle, those existentialists who managed to find a place in their theory of limitless freedom for doctrinaire Marxism...
...gratifying opportunity to see on numerous occasions in the marvelous seminar that Momigliano [the late classical historian] has run with major contribution from Valeri and Sahlins in Anthropology, and Stager on the Orientalist side. He now holds his own with bristly graduate students expounding semiotics and structural Marxism, and returns the fire of central-place theorists with the historicism of a la longue duree. And yet through all of this the logic of his own work, his own work, his capacity to conceptualize and direct the truly significant Big Dig, continues to unfold...
...neighborhood is blacked out. We enter another world when we sit down with him and Monreal in the gilded elegance of Havana's Ferminia Restaurant -- dollars only. Wolfing down real meat, the two thirtysomething economists paint glowing pictures of a wondrous second-generation Marxism where quasi-private enterprise pays for the nation's broad social safety...
...Marxism is a very coherent ideology," he says, lighting a harsh Populares cigarette in his small, dim living room. "It seemed to have all the answers." He laughs at the idea as he fingers his worn ration book. The modest economic steps the government has taken "won't solve anything," he says. "I think it's more to save the government's face. We're making some changes to look good to the outside world." He explains how each new decree will still leave the state in charge. "They don't want to take these measures, or any measures...