Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Benn insists he is not a Marxist. Yet during the present crisis, he has uncritically supported militant maneuvering to expand the left's power. Not surprisingly, last week Benn was made a member of Foot's shadow cabinet. Says the man who became famous as "the reluctant peer": "The only time the leaders will take any notice is when those of us who put them where they are today also have the power to remove them...
There is a fascism of the left, just like the right." Similar tactics also won the militants considerable support among the unions, where they have had immeasurable help from the likes of Arthur Scargill, the combative Marxist president of the Yorkshire Miners, and Clive Jenkins, general secretary of the 500,000-member white-collar Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. Widespread apathy among the rank and file has also made the militants' job easier. Individual party membership has dropped to about 220,000 from a high of more than 1 million...
...vote of the Labor Party national executive committee. Backing him were three mainstays of the party's radical wing: Tony Benn, Eric Heffer, and Labor M.P. Frank Allaun, a pacifist often suspected of pro-Moscow views. Bevan thus became chief Marxist proselytizer among the nation's youth. Says he: "I'm trying to convince young people to fight for real socialist policies where it counts. We have to transform the Labor Party...
...slender, dark-haired Welshman of considerable charm and directness, Bevan makes no secret of his ideological allegiances. "I'm proud to be called a Marxist," he says. "I do not consider being called a Communist an insult. Most people misunderstand Communism to most people Communism means Stalinism, and I reject that." He scornfully dismisses alarmed charges that he is some sort of subversive. I'm no infiltrator," he says. "We want to bring about an end to the mess that the capitalist system...
Businessmen have been wary of the Sandinistas since the leak last year of something called the 72-hour document. This clandestine paper described how a Marxist regime should tolerate a private sector only until the government was able to take over the economy and throw the capitalists out. Confiscations of land and factories by the government suggested to many business leaders that the Sandinistas took the document seriously...