Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final stage of the socialist transformation, a fully communist society. Though the results of the plunge are not yet in, Castro's effort faces immense obstacles. If Cuba's great leap does fail, its setback, and China's in similar attempts, will call into question some tenets of the Marxist-Leninist theory which Castro claims is pointing...
...campaign to substitute moral for material incentives in the Cuban economy has an ideological justification independent of its practical advantages. The concept of creating a "new man" -for that is an acknowledged aim of the Offensive-is pivotal in classical Marxist-Leninist thinking about society at the stage of communism. Communism, writes Lenin in State and Revolution presupposes "both a productivity of labour unlike the present and a person not like the present man in the street..." Development of the means of production increases the productivity of labor and permits the transformation of man's consciousness. Abundance eliminates the need...
...Marxist-Leninist vision of the "new man" goes beyond denying material rewards. The "new man" forgoes status rewards as well. Under communism there are no status differentials among men since hierarchies cease to be necessary in a society where men work out of love of labor...
LENIN ADMITTED that this vision was tinged with utopianism. He refused to specify how long after the initial overthrow of capitalism it would be achieved. Nevertheless, a theoretical goal of Marxist-Leninist states continues to be the development of a "new man." Before Cuba, only China had tried to create...
During April, all that changed-at least on the surface. SDS members pushed a set of demands to "Stop Harvard Expansion which-although they made good reading for Marxist Leninists-probably wouldn't have helped the housing situation all that much. More than two thousand "moderate" students. in the course of a mass meeting at Soldier's Field passed a different set of demands: for construction of low-income housing in the City and then went back to their rooms little if any wiser about Cambridge than when they had come...