Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...booths displaying such gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were signed up during the two-day Red fete, which was attended by 1.5 million people. Boasted one party recruiter: "Ours is a Communism with joie de vivre...
...Marxist purists, there is nothing quite so socially corrupting as that ultimate expression of status and self-indulgence, the automobile. If so, the Soviet Union's guardians of socialist virtue need to keep on their toes, because the chariots of decadence are popping up on roads all over the land. The U.S.S.R. is entering the auto age, and neither the state-owned companies that make cars nor the customers who buy them know quite what to make of the transition...
...Barbarism with a Human Face, Lévy attacks the promises of Marxism as empty. "Revolution is a myth," he says, pointing to the Soviet Union; instead of "withering away," as Marx predicted, the state has grown into a monstrous "reactionary machine." Lévy blames the persistence of Marxist ideas in France on the thinkers of the French Enlightenment, who paved the way for Communist dogmatism by spreading a naive faith in the historical inevitability of human progress. "The harsh truth," in Lévy's view, is that "the world is in a bad state...
Certain friends, from Howard Cosell to a Marxist novelist, see a foul conspiracy at play. The press is corrupt. Club owners buy and sell journalists. The press is a tool of sports management. Why don't I write that...
...that read: CHICKEN DINNERS LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE. FREE-FLOWING LIQUOR. 20 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 20. Whether investigating police brutality in Oakland in the '40s or leading a White Women's Delegation to Mississippi to appeal the case of convicted Rapist Willie McGee in 1951, Mitford the Marxist seemed to operate with a touch of what she called "high jinks." Missions might be missions, but why could they not also be "a thrilling adventure," or at least "a welcome breather from diapers and housework...