Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow-approved genetics line of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms)? Or should he follow the Morgan-Mendelian theory (that the genes in the reproductive cells control heredity), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., but formally denounced by Soviet officialdom as unscientific and un-Marxist...
...current issue of Britain's Marxist Modern Quarterly, Professor Haldane, after some obviously painful soul-searching, has found a fairly reasonable, though notably un-Marxian answer: these is much to be said on both sides...
Like many another vacationing statesman, Winston Churchill was looking for peace & quiet. He thought he had found it last week in Gardone, on Lake Garda in north Italy. Gardone's Marxist mayor greeted him with a bunch of gladioli; Churchill replied with the opinion that Trieste should be returned to Italy...
Soon Lanny is helping Harry Hopkins draft the Yalta declaration, warning F.D.R. about the Russians and giving him a few pointers on Marxist theory. More & more, of course, he finds himself worrying about the President's health. After the Boss dies, there is still plenty to do: a trip to Europe to wheedle Göring into revealing the hiding place of the priceless collections of stolen art; a dash back to the U.S. to watch the first atom bomb billow up in the New Mexico sky; a mission to Nürnberg to help convict the war criminals...
Throwing around the name of Nozaka's good friend Mao Tse-tung has been even more effective. With Japan's recovery vitally dependent on China trade, certain businessmen have seen fit to invite Red leaders to Tokyo's swank Industry Club. Osaka manufacturers have formed a Marxist study group and are contributing to party coffers. Out in public, Communist orators shout that China shows Asia's "wave of the future." Party organ Akahata, riding the wave, claims that China trade would gain Japan commercial independence (from the U.S.) and would help overthrow the Yoshida government...