Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That a scholar of this type could today be rejected by a committee seeking senior appointments in Afro-American Studies defies belief. That such rejection could today revolve around Professor Genovese's use of some Marxist analytical methods (though quite subdued if not invisible in his Bancroft Prize book, Roll, Jordan, Roll) and his interest in Socialist politics also defies belief. That this petty and obscene resort to McCarthyite use of ideological criteria for faculty appointments at Harvard, hardly a week after President Derek C. Bok issued his courageous and cogent memorandum denouncing such McCarthyite behavior in our universities...
...operating in more than a dozen different nations, dispensing an estimated $20 million in annual military aid and an additional $300 million in economic assistance. Western intelligence agencies discount rumors that East German soldiers and pilots have periodically fought alongside southern African rebels or with the troops of Marxist states like Angola. But no one disputes the fact that East Germany's noncombat military role-as a provider of materiel and advisers-by now equals that of Cuba, and that its political role is even more active than Havana...
...years, Italian Communist Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer has flaunted his independence from Moscow by adopting heresy upon Marxist heresy. He has embraced democratic pluralism, supported NATO and even condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This week, with boldness bordering on recklessness, Berlinguer set off on a formal eight-day visit to China, the Soviet Union's main ideological adversary. Berlinguer's colleagues insisted that his trip was merely an attempt to resume normal relations with the Chinese party, which were cut off in 1962. Nonetheless, the visit was not only a slap at the Kremlin but also...
...late 1960s, have struggled with the reality of individual self-interest. Sixty years of Soviet efforts to make workers more productive and innovative through slogans, medals, bonuses and threats have not overcome the basic problems of the U.S.S.R.'s inefficient agriculture and erratic industry. Bertolt Brecht, the Marxist German dramatist, said sardonically after the 1953 workers' riots in East Berlin that in view of the system's problems with its subjects, it might be easier to "dissolve the people and elect another...
...totally agree with the president. I support him 100 per cent," Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and a critic of Harberger, said. "I'm quite sure the president is as concerned about conservative members of the Faculty objecting to Marxist professors as radical members opposing conservatives," he added...