Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communists have tried to force-feed us literacy and reform. The Marxist rulers who seized power in 1978 and then the Soviet invaders have tried to enforce complete equality of women and have proposed vanquishing the bride-price. The communists are as blind to our special needs and traditions as if they had been escapees from the prisons of the Absolute Amir, their pupils lanced and filled with quicklime...
...AGREE ON THE repressiveness of the current Kabul cabal. Not everyone apprehends the degree of democracy under the pre-Marxist regimes. During the '60s King Zahir Shah retained ultimate authority, yes, but he allowed a parliament to be chosen in elections quite free of political parties. Press freedom prevailed for newspapers that could pass the government censors. After his military coup in 1973, Mohammed Daud let dynastic rule continue, but he proclaimed a republic. He relaxed his dictatorial grip so much that his top ministers were authorized to spend up to 70 pounds without his personal approval. So popular...
There is such a thing as abnormal and normal psychology. It is abnormal psychology to persistently call in question the demands of a government which is quite clearly carrying out its functions in a reasonably law-abiding and responsible manner. Either that, or constant Marxist pressure on the universities! The irrational response of protesting under all and any circumstances, quite clearly comes from the latter...
From the experience of attending Columbia University as a graduate student last year, I can only say that these radicals, when it gets to the "nitty-gritty," use Marxist rhetoric to defend the business establishment. Their real motivation is a kind of disguised and aggressive defense of the president status quo. They thrive on injustice, because it gives them the only power they will ever know. Jerome Minot...
...president we did have to train. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.) opposes the vital Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II). And former Texas Gov. John B. Connally amply showed the extent of his geopolitical understanding when he called Sadegh Ghotbzadeh "a KGB agent, or at least a Marxist," the other night...