Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lessons of a Soviet education is that while one must know the Marxist-Leninist catechism, and party membership is a great asset, being a true believer is not necessary; it may even be a disadvantage in a society where power enjoys more respect and earns more reward than ideological purity. A British Foreign Office expert on the U.S.S.R. sees the country as "running out of ideological élan with which to face the many challenges of the future." Ideology is still an important, indeed inescapable, aspect of Soviet life. Its trappings are everywhere. The country is plastered with huge billboards...
They have minimal interest in the proper Marxist interpretation of the latest event in international affairs or who is likely to win the upcoming election to the district council...
...groundwork of Communism." Such an inconsistency was denounced by Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas in his 1957 classic The New Class, and elitism ranks high among the ideological sins for which the Chinese condemn the Soviets. Soviet theorists inscrutably justify such inequality as a "non-antagonistic contradiction." Others, including some Marxist dissidents, claim that the system has not really created an elite class, since political power and its direct perquisites cannot be inherited. But there is one flaw in that argument: the ease with which the nachalstvo can arrange good educations and careers for their offspring tends to perpetuate their privileged...
...almost any topic, Reagan finds and stresses a connection with the Soviet-American rivalry. Israel is "a strategic asset" and "a deterrent to Soviet expansionism." He advocates military assistance to the anti-Marxist guerrillas of Afghanistan and Angola. Cuba represents "the threat of Soviet influence spreading through the Caribbean," and Nicaragua is a bear's paw threatening U.S. interests in Latin America. He even plays down the Sino-Soviet split, emphasizing that whatever the quarrels between China and the Soviet Union, "both are Communist, and both want to take over the world...
...Harberger case was not a matter of academic freedom, as Bok argued in his final open letter, but a political controversy over an undeniably political appointment. And even if Bok's argument that he needs to defend conservative appointments today so he can defend Marxists against the Joseph McCarthys of the future were valid, the scarcity of Marxists at Harvard to begin with makes this a moot point. And the decision not to offer the respected Afro-Am scholar Eugene D. Genovese a professorship because of his "controversial"--read Marxist--background makes it a laughable point...