Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Havana TV, Castro himself set the record straight. He had had to dissemble his radical views earlier, he said, but now he could say: "Ever since college, I have been fundamentally influenced by Marxism. I believe absolutely in Marxism. I always believed Marxism was the correct doctrine. I am Marxist-Leninist and I will be Marxist-Leninist until...
...world." In contrast, Christianity has shrunk until it has become little more than "a support to our weakness, companion to our loneliness, counselor to our neuroticisms, and heavenly confirmer of our national purpose." What is needed is an all-encompassing Christian vision-"truer, vaster and tougher than the Marxist vision," with a core of spirituality illuminating "economics, politics, and all other areas of human affairs...
...purchase of the advertisement is a response to an academic freedom debate that has raged in New York City for the past month. On Oct. 26 a speaking invitation extended to Benjamin J. Davis, Secretary of the United States Communist Party, by the Marxist Discussion Club, a student group, was withdrawn by Queens College officials...
...Gordeyev Family (Artkino), a Russian export amplified from a novel (Foma Gordeyev) by Maxim Gorky, is a visual experience that roars across the screen with the rage and razmakh of a flash fire on the steppes. Unfortunately it is also a piece of Marxist propaganda that suggests Premier Khrushchev might profitably send some of his moviemakers to Siberia-to stimulate corn production...
Director Donskoi's cartoon-capitalists are often fun to look at, if impossible to take seriously, and even moviegoers who cannot believe in Marxist fairy tales will feel the chthonian power of Donskoi's images. In one, a ballroom filled with swilling businessmen whirls like a carousel as the camera slowly descends to discover that this frivolous world of profit and pleasure is being turned by a great mill wheel, and the wheel itself by the sweat and strength of poor men chained like beasts to an eternal round of labor without value, suffering without sense...