Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Dr. Cheddi Jagan. 42. a politically ambitious East Indian dentist, first took power in British Guiana eight years ago, he fluttered the dovecots of empire. Sounding every inch a Marxist. Jagan vowed: "The same bullets which were fired on poor people will be fired on our oppressors." announced that he was forming a "people's police" and abolishing the civil service. In a day when Winston Churchill was still Prime Minister. Britain's reply was to send four warships and 1,600 troops, who ousted Jagan and suspended the brand-new constitution that granted the 147-year...
Similarly, the document considered left-wingers and "welfare statists" hopelessly naive and the pawns of capitalists, but allowed for cooperation with such misguided liberals to serve Communist ends. In the colonialist struggles, even local business groups (in Marxist jargon, "the nationalist bourgeoisie") still have a "progressive role" that is "not yet spent." An orthodox, old-fashioned Marxist theoretician might find some of this ambivalence not very well thought out as doctrine, even while conceding its usefulness as propaganda...
Follow the Leader. In all of Khrushchev's 47,000 words, there was no mention whatsoever of Joseph Stalin, no mention of the U.N. in all the talk of peace and only three brief references to the Chinese Communists, whose possible "contributions to Marxist-Leninism" go completely ignored. Unlike the declaration put together at last fall's 81-nation Communist Party parley, where the Russians had to compromise with Red China, this time there was little mention of "separate roads to socialism." Says the Moscow program: "The main trail of socialism has been blazed . . . sooner or later...
...attempt to compete more effectively with the incumbent Christian Democrats, led by the 85-year old Adenauer, the Socialists have soft-pedalled the Marxist line and backed down on their previous stands on demilitarization, disarmament, nationalization of industry, and the German position vis a vis the United States and NATO...
...letter to the poet is curious on three counts. With its evocation of the "seething mass" of America and its "measureless crudity," it gives a prose version of his poetic vision. As such, its effect was only to scare off a poetic grandee, and it showed a naively crude Marxist notion of culture as a "superstructure." The combination of "wealthy incentive, no limit to food, land, money, work, opportunity, smart and industrious citizens" would surely some day be followed by "great ideas-religion, poets, literature." Such was Whitman's wobbly esthetic, which he was to share with the leading...