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...Marxism is dead. Communists are history. Right? Not in Mongolia, as it turns out. The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, which ruled the country for decades in lockstep with Moscow, won 70 of the 76 seats in the parliament, the Great People's Hural. Though 43% of the votes went to noncommunist candidates, a coalition of the three main opposition parties managed to take only four seats, since each contest was decided by simple majority...
...started out as violent and seriously revolutionary in the 1920s, under the leadership of your standard Latin American charismatic type, Haya de la Torre--known affectionately as "el Jefe." EI Jefe's messianic Marxism and anti-imperialism found a receptive audience in underdeveloped Peru, forging what Peruvians call APRA's "mistica...
...same time, it is true that Western pressure could not have accomplished what it did if the the system had not been deeply flawed. Marxism-Leninism -- and socialism in general -- embodied the basic fallacy that people do their best work in a vast collective, rather than in free pursuit of their self-interest, and that government or bureaucrats can run an efficient, egalitarian economy...
...unbecoming of a tutor to do so. Ignatiev has alienated students in his house and around campus. How is he now supposed to relate to students whom he fundamentally thinks are wrong in their most central beliefs? And how can a student discuss campus life--from the tenets of Marxism to the intramural football team--when he or she knows that Ignatiev doesn't respect them...
...addition, The Crimson made no mention of the organizations sponsoring the meeting--Inroads: Harvard's Socialist Forum, Boston Socialist Action, The Bulletin in Defense of Marxism, the W.E.B. Du Boise Institute, the Afro-American Studies Department and others. Some mention of those who worked to build the event would have been appreciated. Tom Garvey '92 Alejandro Reuss '92 Editors, Inroads Magazine