Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young people there are dealing with a whole set of problems and issues their parents didn't have," he says. "In Angola, a lot of issues came in with the Marxist government. Marxism tries to redefine what a person is: a unit in a social machine as opposed to a person loved by God, whose life is important to Him and of infinite value...
...rather conservative ideological stance. Cudjoe, for example, filed a grievance with the University last fall, claiming that political differences between him and members of the executive committee caused the committee to deny him promotion. The committee's decision not to offer a tenured position to Eugene D. Genovese, a Marxist historian at the University of Rochester, drew much criticism from students and led to the resignation of Orlando Patterson from the committee...
...alumnae remember being aware of the rise and fall of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, but mostly because of his direct attacks on Harvard, and an unusual foray into foreign policy undertaken by the Crimson. McCarthy had gone out of his way to portray the University as a den of Marxist saboteurs during his years at the helm of the Senate Committee on Investigations. In 1955, already censured for his extraordinary red-baiting campaign, he returned to the limelight temporarily as he testified against accused communists in a Boston trial. Levin attended the trial "just to see what was going...
...parents before moving to London's Streatham district. He traces his radicalism to being black. As a member of the Young Socialists' London organization, Brown passed out leaflets during the Brixton riots urging young blacks and whites to protest police repression. Says Brown: "I'm a Marxist because that's the way people like me progress...
...their noisy and strident confidence, the Marxist left has also suffered some setbacks. Labor's impressive showing in the recent local elections, in which Conservatives lost control in 23 of 54 counties, has given some encouragement to party moderates. Michael Foot used the occasion to proclaim that "the alternative government of the country is in a pretty healthy state...