Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelves sag with Marxist thought, corners devoted to the master, Engels, Lenin, even Stalin. A chart on the wall, querying, "How Many Hands Wield the Revolutionary Worker?" chronicles the number of party newspapers sold each week. And Revolution Books, just outside Central Square, serves as local headquarters for the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). The press conference is conducted from two sofas and a couple of chairs in the middle of the bookstore. A press conference without press, save one Harvard Crimson reporter, and he looks bored. To interest him, a local party publicist reads some statements of support...
...Club who otherwise would have been watching the televised season's opener between the archrival Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins. Said Bradshaw: "Jim Wright voted against the B-1 bomber. Jim Wright voted for funding the Panama Canal treaty. Jim Wright voted to give foreign aid to a Marxist government in Nicaragua. It's time for a change...
DESPITE A RELENTLESSLY non-judgmental style (Broder seems to like a Marxist judge in Detroit and an Indiana housewife turned "right-to-life" activist equally), the author does manage to capture the political spirit of a generation. Acutely conscious of the current void in leadership and new ideas, they seem to be reaching out for new solutions-and, of course, new ways to get elected. Broder announces proudly his confidence in their ability to do so, though the 500 pages contain precious little in the way of new political thinking. At least, Broder concludes, "they have a crack at turning...
...according to one member of the disbanded "Montoneros" urban guerrilla group, only a small percent of those persecuted by the government now have direct connections with the terrorist left. "At our heyday in 1975, we numbered only several thousand, along with other revolutionary groups, such as the ERP (Marxist People's Revolutionary Army). By 1977, most of us were either killed or had fled the country. The Desaparecidos today are generally nonmilitant family or friends...
...operating procedures of Marxist states usually follow a depressing logic. Marxism, with its incomparably oafish legerdemain, softens up the sanity by explaining that failure is success, and otherwise fulfilling George Orwell's expectations. The revolutionary "vanguard" clearing the way for the dictatorship of the proletariat develops into a "New Class" of privileged party officials and bureaucrats. The system runs by what the Soviets call blat- influence, clout, corruption. A new minority rule sets in. If it is not the dark, satanic will of Stalin, it has little to do with workers' wishes either. Although members of the ruling...