Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colonial rule. The subsistence production of the Vietnamese peasantry was used to support a class of landlords and the French colonial administration. This repression resulted in several unsuccessful peasant uprisings. The biggest, which occured in 1930, was led by Ho Chi Minh, an ardent Vietnamese nationalist who had studied Marxist revolutionary methods in Moscow...
...sectors, each Czech factory will have wide freedom for its own development. East Germany, too, has relegated planning to groups of enterprises, freed the prices of some raw materials, is toying with profit incentives. Hungary has intro duced a form of profit sharing, and in a deviation from Marxist ideology unique in the bloc, has imposed an interest rate of 5% on capital. To push exports, Poland has permitted three firms to set up their own foreign-trade pipelines, bypassing Warsaw to deal directly abroad. Yugoslavia long ago created a "Socialist market economy"-relatively competitive enterprise under state ownership...
...complete nationalization of Brazil's petroleum resources. The book failed to please extremists on either the left or the right, and touched off a heated debate in the course of which Jaguaribe resigned from the Institute. The Institute was later abolished by the 1964 revolutionary forces because of alleged Marxist control...
...country sometimes makes the rest of the world a little uncomfortable. But it is very different from militant nationalism, which substitutes the nation for God, or from messianic imperialism (for instance, the "Holy Russia" of the czarist era, perhaps not entirely dead in the atheistic Marxist present), which sees one nation as universal redeemer. The special American destiny, suggested President Johnson, is both a blessing and a burden. "We have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit...
...Bandaranaike, who stayed on as caretaker chief of the government, denounced the defection as a "stab in the back." De Silva explained that he felt she "was going to betray Ceylon to the Marxists." Ceylon's influential Buddhist monks, alarmed by the Marxist infiltration, began turning against the buxom Prime Minister. They particularly denounced a proposal, put forward by the Communists in the government, to permit the legal tapping of coconut trees and turn the sap into toddy, thus heading off illicit bootlegging and bringing new revenue into the treasury. When Mrs. Bandaranaike tried to win back the monks...