Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foreign Communists everywhere, in their hour of distress, are crying for a "true Marxist analysis" of First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's sensational speech (TIME, June 11) at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party. Last week they got the beginnings of one from Marxist Pietro Nenni, leader of the Italian Red Socialist Party. It struck with shattering force into the foundations of the "back to Lenin" movement which Khrushchev, Tito et al. are promoting as a substitute for Stalinism...
...incessant cigarette smoker and dedicated billiards player, aloof, handsome U Ba Swe is a tougher, less gracious man than U Nu. Unlike his predecessor, he avoids unnecessary contact with Westerners and, while arguing that "there is a sea of difference between being a Marxist and being a Communist," flatly calls himself...
...joined the Bolshevik Party and got an intense, if defective, party education. On his untrammeled peasant mind Marxist-Leninist theory had the power of revelation. He took the Stalinist line and stuck to it. T hus he became one of the realists of Communism, an undeviating supporter of power-in-being. With his bull-like energy, ready grasp of slogans, he was soon shouldering his way through the party ranks...
...rotation cost the country in one season as much grain as would have been produced by 6,000,000 acres. He refused to introduce hybrid corn, the most spectacular practical achievement of Western plant genetics. The blight of Lysenkoism even touched far-distant sciences, including chemistry and physics, where Marxist dogmatists denounced useful and well-proved principles as tainted with Western error...
...curriculum at this level of education is rigidly prescribed. While free to specialize in whatever field he desires, the student is very limited within that particular field. All must take a Marxist or Leninist course each year, although they are "bored with it," according to Malia...