Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yevtushenko hopefully in 1960. "Everywhere they speak the same tongue." But unhappily, intelligible dialogue between American and Russian nightingales is severely inhibited, partly in the matter of language, chiefly by the nature of Yevtushenko's nonpoetical preoccupations. The handicap is not so much that his muse is a Marxist but that she is a public creature: poetic sensibility in the West is involved in more private, perhaps more eternal matters...
Martin reports that Fidel Castro's agents, exploiting the country's "politics of annihilation," had plotted ever since Trujillo's assassination "to seize control of the capital's streets, the first step in the classic Marxist revolutionary pattern." Francisco Caamano Deno, the rabble-rousing, opportunistic army colonel who led the revolt, was portrayed by New York Times Correspondent Tad Szulc as a well-meaning nationalist. Martin has a slightly different assessment: "I had met no man who I thought might become a Dominican Castro-until I met Caamano. He was winning a revolution from below...
...fascinating sidelight is the treatment of the whole episode in the Soviet press. Moscow papers have produced objective, detailed and horrified reports of the way the Chinese are running a Marxist revolution. "The Red Guards beat up a worker because he happened to be in a room where they found a crack in the frame of a portrait of Mao," reported Pravda last week. "They beat people with sticks, rifle butts, chairs and electric wires. One man was tortured a whole night. When he lost consciousness, they poured cold water over him, and kept torturing him until he died." Pravda...
...many Russians even today have a lingering prejudice against private property. Such an attitude, of course, could put a serious crimp in the Kremlin's ambitious plans to create a consumer-oriented economy. Last week Izvestia attempted through sleight of mind to remove the stigma of ownership from Marxist-Leninist doctrine...
...religious film; so Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini has decided to try the formula again. And again. First he plans to shoot a modern-day version of St. Paul's travels, then a contemporary parable of Christ visiting a middle-class family. The fact that Pasolini is a Marxist seems to trouble a lot of people-but not Paolo. "What no one understands is that an Italian Marxist is very special. He doesn't change into another person when he votes Communist. He's still what he al ways was, and most Italians are a little bourgeois...