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...Deng has installed the revolutionary notion that people produce more if offered incentives. Without upheaval or fanfare, without blatant feuds at the top or bloody purges at the grass roots, Deng and his pragmatic colleagues have brought about the most sweeping reforms ever attempted under the banner of Marxism. They have transformed the nation's agricultural system, awakened its cultural life and quintupled the income of millions of peasants. Their ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise per capita annual income from the present...
...member of his family to achieve such success, Bai remains pessimistic about the future of free enterprise in China. He believes that while private ownership may be an immediate necessity, state control will provide more economic growth in the long run. "As a theory, private enterprise is opposed to Marxism," he explains. "But in China at this stage, we need all sorts of forms of production. As socialism develops toward Communism, my job will be less and less important." What will Bai do then? "With the development of bigger factories run by the state," he responds...
...action on a Marxist foundation. Cardinal Ratzinger goes further, identifying liberation theology as a serious doctrinal error. Ratzinger concedes that the movement might never have arisen if the church had been more aggressive in attacking oppression. However, he firmly rejects the approach of liberation theologians who, he says, use Marxism to interpret the Bible in their own way and who believe they can adopt Marxism's techniques without its atheism. He accuses such writer-priests as Gustavo Gutierrez of Peru and Jon Sobrino of El Salvador of transforming spiritual concepts into political ones...
...extent to which Marxist interpretations have penetrated the social sciences should be viewed as a positive thing, even by non-Marxists. Marxism is but one school of though out of many that has made a valuable contribution to intellectual debate. In economics, Marxists have attempted to look beyond the laws of supply and demand, focusing instead on the relations of employers and workers, thus breathing a little life and relevance into an often abstract discipline. In history, Marxists have introduced class as a variable helping to explain the shaping of society...
ALTHOUGH HIS POETRY includes images of violence, mutilation, and blood, Cesaire's aim was not revolution but self-renewal. Until 1956 he was an avowed Communist, like many French surrealists, but he later came to reject Marxism because of its part in the dominant culture that had colonized Martinique. Cesaire founded the Martinican Progressive Party (PPM) in 1958 and during the 1960s, wrote plays about colonialism and liberation. The personal and political loss that colonialism had caused is tragically painted in "Africa...