Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasants and workers. At his best, Bosch seems to stand for sensible reform; at his worst, he indulges some of the erratic whims of a Jânio Quadros, Brazil's mercurial onetime President, who abdicated in 1961. Before the election, when a priest called Bosch a "Marxist-Leninist." he became so inflamed that he withdrew completely from the campaign-only to return to the race a few days later. Periodically, he has gone on verbal rampages, lashing out at his country's rich, criticizing the Alliance for Progress, and denouncing a big contract recently signed by Standard...
Inevitably, Aung Gyi's gradualism annoyed Ne Win, a soldier who is no Communist but has vowed to socialize Burma as quickly as possible. Aung Gyi earned the enmity of Brigadier Tin Pe, a Marxist theorist and a key member of the Revolutionary Council. For months, Tin Pe pressed for a faster switchover to state control; Aung Gyi's departure means that Tin Pe has finally...
Community Twilight. Except for a glow of pride, tempered with nervous concern, among some Frenchmen, the only cheerful voices were being raised in Moscow, where Soviet ideologists suddenly thought they saw confirmation of the hoary Marxist-Leninist tenet that capitalist countries will inevitably be destroyed by their "inner contradictions." Cried a Russian spokesman: "This is the twilight of the so-called European Community. A difficult navigation now awaits the American ship of state...
...sweep and color, the book tells how Lenin turned from a peaceful student into a fiery revolutionist after the czarist police killed his brother. In detail, the authors unfold the subsequent chain of tragedies: Lenin's minority-party power grab in 1917, Stalin's further perversion of Marxist ideals. Russia's nationalistic heroism in World War II and its postwar imperialism, the chilling struggle for Kremlin power after Stalin's death, and the sharp differences among Communist countries. Adlai Stevenson praises the book for its "new insights" and "fresh, factual appraisal...
...loan; when all is said and done, France is expected to come across with the cash. As an exporter of peanuts and beef (its cattle are north of Africa's tsetse fly zone), self-sufficient in rice and other staples, Mali just might make the grade, despite the Marxist trappings. In any case, Modibo Keita, like many another African leader, is still open to suggestion on which ideology is best...