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...answering that question, Banuri says, "The radical view is quite coherent and consistent." That radical view, however, does not necessarily equate with Marxism. "I would think of myself as a Marxist only as I would think of myself as a Newtonian or for that matter as a Smithian. I think Marx tried to present a scientific view of society. So have the Neoclassicals. What they have tried to do is abstract from society and find the most important relationships that define how society operates. These people are looking at different relationships and that is why they often come up with...
...progress, and everything that can be used to maintain the power and privilege of the Tory establishment must be swept away," exclaims far-left M.P. Eric Heffer. Heffer, 59, rejects the old British maxim that "the Labor Party owes more to Methodism than Marx." His view is blunt: "Marxism has been a more powerful influence...
Bevan zealously believes a democratic form of radical Marxism is possible in Britain. The '80s, he thinks, will be the "decade of the Big Option," meaning that Britons will have to decide "between Thatcherism and the radical socialist alternative." Indeed, if the Andy Bevans get their way, Britain's polarization may be just beginning...
...were in the hazardous forefront of Poland's violent anti-Soviet demonstrations in 1968, but they had taken little part in the latest upheavals. Last week they mobilized, occupying academic buildings at Lodz and settling in for a siege with sleeping bags. Among their demands: fewer courses on Marxism, less emphasis on Russian-language instruction, and an end to restrictions on foreign travel...
...McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy: "It undermines the legitimacy on which Communist power rests by refuting the claim of the Communist Party to be the sole authentic representative of the working class." Communist orthodoxy predicates authoritarian rule: a bedrock belief of Marxism-Leninism is the absolute dictatorship of the proletariat, as represented by its vanguard, the Party. In practical terms, Moscow-style Communism also insists on rigid central planning; that kind of "command" economy is in trouble if it cannot command its own workers. For these reasons, the Soviets are nervous that...