Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the confusion in Burma was caused by rival Marxists. Hari Goshal, carrying out the Calcutta plan, was busily at work with the so-called White Flag Communists. A group called Red Flag Communists worked separately from them. Closest to the government in outlook, but believing in cooperation with the Communists, was a group of veterans of the People's Anti-Japanese Army, organized by former Premier U Aung San, assassinated last year. Another important group is the Karens, who are mostly Christian, and oppose the government, which they say is heavily Marxist...
...obscure Javanese schoolteacher, angry with his Dutch masters, joined a Marxist study group, became a Communist, got into a rebellion, and was clapped in jail. Almost at once he escaped and made his way to Moscow, where he stayed quietly for 23 years. Last August, Muso Suparto (now calling himself simply Muso) turned up in Java again. Thirty-eight days later he emerged at the head of a successful Communist rebellion...
...compromise is the shrill and not unexpected determination "to vote for Wallace, even if I had to write in his name on the ballot.") And with the kind of disingenuousness that would have appalled another of his heroes, Psychologist William James, Author Matthiessen insists that he cannot become a Marxist because "I am a Christian, not through upbringing but by conviction...
...more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives the dispossessed their only hope...
Naturally, the Austrian lackeys of the American imperialists create an artificial shortage of fresh meat in order to force Viennese to buy the U.S. wild horse surplus. There you have the whole Marxist theory: overproduction, imperialism, scarcity-all in a Russian-cleaned nutshell...