Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, Marxist-leaning Sékou Touré has dreamed of the day when he would finish the work of the man he claimed as his grandfather-the legendary Chief Samory who fought so fiercely to drive the French out of West Africa. As head of the powerful (700,000 members) Union Générale des Travailleurs d'Afrique Noire, he ruthlessly slashed his way to power, often quieted his opponents by the simple expedient of burning down their houses. Though he was a constant troublemaker, French officials grudgingly admired him as the brightest of West Africa...
...with the Guinean Premier. More important, probably, is Touré's vaulting ambition. He is in close touch with President Kwame Nkrumah of independent Ghana and has a mystic concept of his role in the future greatness of his continent. "All Africa is my problem," he boasts. A Marxist-trained unionist himself, Sekou Touré, 36, envisions a Guinean government in which labor unions will be the prime instruments of administrative power...
Contradicting Communist myth, Moorehead recapitulates such things as the relative obscurity of Lenin in Marxist councils before the revolution, the fact that German subsidies were of great importance to the Bolsheviks, and the massive extent of the funds offered by the policy of "expropriations," meaning armed robbery; Stalin himself carried out successful heists. Moorehead evokes the strange quality of Russian life with its tone of "brittle lethargy," the Byzantine bureaucracy of the Czarist system and the paternal absolutism of the Romanovs, which was inherited by the Russian revolutionaries and became "the core of [their] mind." Finally, Moorehead stresses the importance...
...garbled in transmission, Soustelle has already replaced some ten key members of the government-run Radio-Television FranÇaise. Increasingly, French radio, television and newsreels are becoming sycophantic in praise of De Gaulle. When a parliamentary committee accused Soustelle of imposing on France "unilateral and partial information," ex-Marxist Soustelle's brushoff reply to this accusation recalled to Figaro Soustelle's youthful training in Communist dialectic...
Next to Houphouet-Boigny, the most powerful man in the R.D.A. is a 36-year-old labor leader named Sékou Touré, now the vice premier of Guinea. A onetime Marxist and incorrigible troublemaker for France, he is a ruthless man who used to burn the houses of his enemies, and looks upon the loi-cadre as only one step toward autonomy. But the French regard him benignly as one of the ablest administrators in the whole territory. "I am no socialist," says he, "and neither are my colleagues. We have studied the principles of socialism, Communism...