Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders have indulged in some frank selfcriticism. "Serious problems" exist, admitted the release that announced the purge. "Some party members have a vague and confused idea about the basic principles and superiority of the socialist system and about the bright Communist future . . . some turn a blind eye to anti-Marxist and antisocialist ideas." Even today, continued the anonymous critic, "some party members . .. openly violate regulations and discipline, sabotage state plans, vio late state economic policies and illegally retain taxes and profits...
...almost a week, Radio Free Grenada had kept listeners across the Caribbean on edge with breathless accounts of coups and countercoups among the Marxist rulers of the tiny (133 sq. mi., pop. 110,000) island. Then last Wednesday, what had begun as political melodrama turned into a murderous power play...
Bishop seized power 4½ years ago in a bloodless coup that deposed the eccentric and repressive regime of Sir Eric Gairy. Nominally a Marxist but at heart a pragmatist, Bishop did not establish a democracy. But he did satisfy most citizens with social tranquillity, rising exports and a host of public works, including 45 miles of new roads. Many of the projects were financed by Cuban and other Soviet bloc aid. Lately Bishop had even been talking of elections. Last spring he visited Washington for meetings with U.S. officials in an effort to tone down the antagonistic rhetoric between...
Bishop's moderation may have been his undoing. For months, Grenada had been rife with rumors of conflict between the Prime Minister and his most senior colleague, Finance Minister Bernard Coard, a doctrinaire Marxist. After a welter of contradictory reports last week, it seemed that Coard had toppled Bishop in a power struggle. General Austin strengthened that impression in a long radio address in which he chastised Bishop for failing to share power with Coard under a policy of "collective leadership...
Patterson: For every Marxist revolutionary that we have intimidated, this action has created at least a dozen Marxist revolutionaries from the younger generation who might have chosen a different course of action. It's just a wonderful rallying call, not only for people who are already anti-American but for whole generations of people who will become anti-American. I can just see all the schoolchildren all over Central America seeing Grenada, and saying you're right all along. Millions of anti-American Communists are being formed by this one act, especially since-to repeat- it could have been avoided...