Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago, after months of artful dodging, Nenni made it clear that he did not. To Communist applause, he alone among Western European Socialists responded favorably to Nikita Khrushchev's call for a united Marxist front against U.S. "intrigue" in the Middle East (TIME, Oct. 28). And last week, as the Social Democrats wound up their first party congress in two years, it was no longer Nenni but Saragat who was wriggling under the pressure for "Socialist unification...
Crowding into Milan's seedy, smoke-filled Halcyon Theater, 547 Social Democratic bigwigs shouted and orated in impressive abstract discussions of Marxist theory, but were unable even to agree on a platform for Italy's general elections, now only six months off. After years of unchallenged dominance of the party, moody, long-faced Giuseppe Saragat, 59, twice Vice Premier of Italy, was seriously threatened by 36-year-old Matteo Matteotti, whose only program was unification after the elections. Matteotti did not explain how Social Democrats could win votes by, in effect, promising to become Nenni Socialists right after...
Driving force behind this leftward trend is Bandaranaike's Minister of Agriculture and Food, dynamic, ruthless Philip Gunawardena. A rich man's son who learned about Communism at the University of Wisconsin and New York's Union Square, Gunawardena calls himself "a Marxist, first, last and always." From the moment Bandaranaike took him into the government last year (ostensibly to keep him quiet), Gunawardena has stepped up his demands for more and more nationalization. He has already won authority to control all rice and sugar sales. His latest proposal would give him the right to control...
Aside from dropping, for the moment at least, the sword of righteousness, the United States must increase its economic aid program in the Middle East. Economic stability is still the surest weapon against Communism. Syria and its neighbors are still vulnerable to Marxist doctrine, and only financial security can prevent its spread...
...direct delusion, the telling of something other than the truth. The other is deception by silence, the telling of only part of the story. The communists used both means. They omitted everything that could possibly be omitted, when it did not jibe with the Marxist theory...