Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Regis Debray, 27, French-born Marxist, currently serving a 30-year sentence in a Bolivian prison (see THE WORLD...
Clearly, Spock is scrambling some of this propaganda on purpose. The resistance (or, The Resistance) will, by persistence, actually encourage the movement (or, The Movement). Close readers of the text--true Spock ideologues--will be able to catch these subtleties, certainly of the same genre as so-called Marxist "inconsistencies...
Easy Liaisons. Marriage has never enjoyed much status in Communist dogma. Marxist theory stigmatized the institution as a bourgeois relic whose sinister purpose was the orderly transfer of property from a father to his son. The Soviets scythed the religious significance out of marriage entirely, and in the post-Revolution years they advocated easy liaisons. Many couples married themselves by "solemn agreements," while others, who had tired of their mates, merely called the district party chief and announced that they considered themselves divorced. Tiring came quickly in societies where privacy is almost impossible, diversions drab, and the outlook...
...inability to do so, has caused Castro's regime to lean more and more on such spectacles as last week's cultural congress. As the congress ended, Castro came up with yet another diversion. Countering the suggestion of Bolivian President René Barrientos that Bolivia's Marxist Prisoner Régis Debray be swapped for Castro Prisoner Huber Matos (TIME, Jan. 12), Castro offered to release 100 political prisoners in return for the body of Che Guevara. He may have in mind something like Lenin's tomb...
Blurbs & Swipes. Apart from U.S. shows, however, the Iron Curtain countries still come on strong with dialectic. Television's purpose, sums up the Hungarian theoretical journal Tarsadalmi Szemle, is "agitation and propaganda in a perseveringly Marxist spirit." To that end, a typical recent night's fare in Budapest kicked off with a blurb on the activities of red-scarfed youth groups. Then followed a 15-minute commentary on Southeast Asia by an official of the party newspaper, and an unillustrated and soporific 45-minute autobiography by a 70-year-old Communist militant...