Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China has cast off all pretense that it sets much value on extending universal education or preserving the country's cultural heritage. Ancient operas have been rewritten along Marxist lines; the nation's scholars are being silenced. The government's main objective now is to turn out 60,000 to 70,000 technical specialists a year. "China's intellectuals," reports French Correspondent Robert Guillian of Le Monde, just returned from China, "are frightened and subservient, half scared out of their wits. They are men in a deep malaise...
...several visits to Russian universities, Malia observed "strict regimentation of the students." The standard of technical competence that they have to achieve is very high," Malia said, "but they are not encouraged to think things out by themselves. They seemed bored by the Marxist doctrine that they have to adhere to so rigorously...
...credit went to the democratic unions; the Communists could only grudgingly accept the gains on behalf of their own members. Caught up in the Marxist dogma of progressive "pauperization," the Communist unions demand political rather than economic gains, preferring workers to be poor and militant rather than well-paid and independent. Some of the French workers seem to be catching...
Among other forms of Marxist progress, the Communist Revolution brought Russia "voluntary motherhood." A 1920 law permitted Soviet hospitals to perform abortions without charge. Business got so heavy that women queued up in some of the bigger hospitals. Abortions were soon rivaling births in some Soviet cities, and a small fee was charged for the service. Alarmed at this drainage of its manpower, Russia banned abortions in 1936 except for strictly therapeutic reasons...
...American Idea" were the enslaved Indian and peon, the conquerors like Cortez, the revolutionists Zapata and Padre Miguel Hidalgo. But Orozco alone of Mexico's Big Three took a hard second look at the world about him and had the courage to draw what he saw: the Marxist "liberator" in turn enslaving the revolutionaries, the Franciscan friar as the symbol of brotherly compassion. These views, plus his hatred of war and distrust of political panaceas, often brought his art into open conflict with the rhetoric of Rivera and the angry manifesto images of Siqueiros. But they expressed...