Word: marxisms
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...that Nicaragua's November vote looks "more and more like sham elections on the Soviet model." As Shultz spoke, U.S. warships, including the battleship Iowa, cruised off the Nicaraguan coast. Their mission: to serve as reminders of the Reagan Administration's determination to stop the spread of Marxism-Leninism from Nicaragua to the rest of Central America. Meanwhile, leaders of the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic Force of anti-Sandinista rebels known as contras declared they would intensify their guerrilla attacks against the Nicaraguan regime, despite a U.S. congressional cutoff in May of covert Administration...
...Leonardo Boff completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Munich 14 years ago, German Theologian Joseph Ratzinger steered it to a publisher. Matters have become more problematic since then. Boff, 45, is now Brazil's leading exponent of "liberation theology," a controversial movement that blends elements of Marxism with Christianity. Ratzinger is a Cardinal, and Pope John Paul's most powerful theological watchdog at the Vatican...
...liberation theology, Boff contends, "there is no direct link to Marxism"; theologians may employ Marxist theory and terms, but they are anticapitalist not pro-Marxist. Boff states, "We oppose state socialism because it is authoritarianism. We do, however, recognize that countries like Cuba are better off now than before the revolution. For one thing, there are no slums in Cuba...
...three-hour address larded with ideological cliches ("the running dogs of imperialism," "the exploited class"), Mugabe pledged to make Zimbabwe a "great and prosperous nation" under Marxism and the ZANU party. He admitted that "we made some mistakes along the way, but these were honest mistakes." He mentioned organizational errors, as well as misplaced trust in party leaders who "betrayed the [ZANU] cause...
...Vatican has not yet responded to this appraisal, but top officials in the past have emphasized that they do not condemn all struggles of the oppressed for liberation, only those that rely on Marxism for solutions. Concludes Ratzinger: "If one thinks on how radical is the interpretation of Christianity derived from it, the problem of how one can and must confront it becomes so much more urgent...