Word: marxist
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...more sharply divergent approaches to the same subject would be difficult to imagine. Piven and Cloward argue that politics is the expression of deeper conflicts between economic classes. To this familiar Marxist analysis they add the interesting notion that American history is largely the story of workers using democratic political freedoms to regain the traditional economic subsistence rights wrested away from them by a bourgeois-dominated state. This conflict--"Democracy vs. Capitalism"--eventually produced the Welfare State to protect workers (or "ordinary people," or the "poor" Pivan and Cloward interchange these phrases quite loosely) from the ravages of unemployment...
What is more, it must gingerly be said, sung live, their politics almost seem to make sense. Not that you necessarily agree with them, but at least you learn to respect them. For while they will surely be spouting Marxist slogans until the day they die. Gill and King don't take it all that seriously. And that is something you could never really glean from an album like Songs of the Free, which to the casual listener can seem almost excruciatingly pedantic. These guys actually have a sense of humor, which is a lot more than...
Pablo Emilio Madero, candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), came in second with 14% of the vote, a result that had also been expected. Despite a sizable showing by the Marxist Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (P.S.U.M.) at an election rally three weeks ago, its candidate, Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, was a distant third, with 5.8% of the vote. Of the seven parties represented in the race, only the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (P.A.R.M.) and the Social Democrat Party (P.S.D.) failed to win the 1.5% of the vote required to register as a political party...
...Mexico's change of leadership will probably be easier relations with Washington. Despite a warm personal relationship with Ronald Reagan, Lopez Portillo has discomforted the U.S. by indulging his ambitions as a spokesman for Third World concerns. He irritated Washington last August when, with France, Mexico recognized the Marxist-led insurgents of El Salvador as a "representative political force" in that country. Lopez Portillo called for negotiations with the guerrillas, thereby undercutting U.S. support for the civihan-military regime. He has frequently offered to act as an intermediary between the U.S. and Cuba over the crisis in Central America...
Luckily, Rausch edits most of the didactic verse--such as Auden's version of T.S. Eliot's conclusion to The Wasteland (Auden: "Repent... Unite ... Act"), or his awkwardly Marxist closing line: "To each his need, from each his power." Rauch leaves in those speeches pointing to the concerns more relevant to his summer audience: "Take sex, for instance... Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's said, but it's always hanging about like a smell of drains...