Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinking was like that of other dedicated Communists: the Revolution was final emancipation, and it could only be achieved through the party; whatever the party line said was so. Like others, Darke had casually checked his mind and doubts at the door. But since Marxist theology is both intricate and shifty, and the party demanding, many a well-meaning comrade came a cropper when faced with the gobbledygook that passes for dialectic...
...believe that a good Marxist must accept the party's decision as the only decision?" he was asked...
...perfect Marxist state...
...well-established two-party system. But though the opposition Social Democratic Party has 151 Deputies, it slumbers under the respectable but uninspired leadership of Erich Ollenhauer and Carlo Schmid. Today, the 84-year-old Social Democratic Party, Germany's oldest, is fervently anti-Communist and only faintly Marxist, but it still clings as a matter of tradition to Marxist catch phrases like class struggle and proletarian revolution. It thus scares off middle-class voters...
...wing of the party, calling itself the Reformists, realizes the danger and is battling the old-guard bureaucrats for control. Reformist Chief Heinrich Al-bertz, a Protestant pastor and minister in the Lower Saxony Cabinet, would junk the old Marxist catch phrases, and pattern the SPD roughly after the British Labor Party. Albertz argues: "We have good ideas; we are on the right road, but we are unable to speak to the people in their own language. The policy of the present party has as little to do with Marxism as Copernicus does to the 20th century...