Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Communism promises everything to the proletariat. The great theoretical Marxist engine, after all, repairs the dread alienation of "heartless" capitalism by restoring the means of production to the workers. Well, as the Polish emigre writer Leszek Kolakowski, an apostate Marxist, has said, that "has been the greatest fantasy of our century." Observes TIME Correspondent David Aikman, who has covered Eastern Europe extensively: "It is exceedingly hard to find anyone there, and especially in Poland, who believes the official mythology that states run by Communist parties are actually operated for the benefit of the workers. Party officials will sometimes...
...Marxist National Sandinist Liberation Front (FSLN) government really met her raised expectations? "Well," she muses, "not cxactly. But let's say the FSLN is trying...
...elsewhere in the Soviet dominions. The beleaguered government had made a series of concessions that were remarkable for a Communist regime. Now the negotiations had reached a climax over the most crucial demand: a free-trade-union movement outside Communist Party control, a virtual contradiction in terms for a Marxist worker state. On the other side was the yawning void of disorder and a crackdown that, should violence erupt, might bring armed Soviet intervention...
...wife of Poland's leader should not have to do laundry. And for all of Gierek's devotion to Communism, his aged mother has remained a devout Catholic. One crack making the rounds during the Pope's visit: "Gierek hopes to make the Pope a Marxist; Gierek's mother hopes the Pope will make Gierek a Catholic...
...former military commander, Lieut. General Peter Walls, faces possible prosecution as a result of a BBC interview critical of the government. Anxious whites, meanwhile, continue to leave the country at record rates of up to 2,000 a month in the face of sporadic lawlessness and the increasingly Marxist tone of official commentary and TV programming...