Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boast, perhaps, but the fact is that the Ethiopian empire of the late Haile Selassie is today threatened with disintegration. Indeed, the two hottest wars going on anywhere in the world at present are both taking place within Ethiopia. In the northern province of Eritrea, Addis Ababa's Marxist military government of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam has lost everything but the provincial capital of Asmara and the port cities of Massawa and Assab to the secessionist rebels. If Ethiopia should be defeated in both of its desert wars, it would lose more than 40% of its territory, 6 million...
DIED. Ernst Bloch, 92, unorthodox Marxist philosopher with a sizable following among student radicals; of a heart attack; in Tubingen, West Germany. His master work, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), completed during his prewar years in the U.S., laid the groundwork for Theologian Jũrgen Moltmann's "philosophy of hope." Bloch later taught at the University of Leipzig, East Germany, before defecting to the West in 1961 because he was "no longer willing to expose my work or myself to undignified conditions...
...most vocal critics have been Marxist and other scholars with political points to make. University of Chicago Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins dismisses sociobiology as "genetic capitalism"?an attempt to defend the current structures of Western society as natural and inevitable. Jerome Schneewind, a philosopher at Manhattan's Hunter College, calls it "mushy metaphor . . . a souped-up version of Hobbes." Harvard Evolutionary Biologist Richard Lewontin is earthier; he thinks sociobiology is "bullshit...
...Marxist sociologists suggest that we see ourselves in the cars we choose. Young, assertive, loud, one is a Triumph or a Porsche. As we become more burdened, we evolve into Ford station wagons. Last seen of all that ends this strange eventful history, a man becomes a settled sedan: perhaps a Seville. Perhaps a used 1967 Chevy...
...Marxist philosophy holds that the most important problem does not lie in understanding the laws of the objective world and thus being able to explain it, but in applying the knowledge of these laws actively to change the world...