Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIGHTING, COMMODITY SEX and broken family ties intend to make a social statement beyond the psychological wars going on between the characters. Namely, that the emerging modern city at the beginning of the 20th century brought some bad living conditions and, considering Brecht was a Marxist, an intensified capitalism that had extended not only into the lumber mills but also into people's sex lives. The proletarian hero George Garga's change into an authoritarian lumber owner also points to the submerged importance of the individual and the increased importance of the social role in which the individual acts. Garga...
...Marxist and Third World literature, check out Revolution Books (1 Arrow St.). Schoenhof's Foreign Books (75 Mt. Auburn St.) recently opened at this expanded location. This foreign language buff's paradise will send away for rare titles, just as the Grolier Book Store (6 Plympton St.) will take special orders for poetry books...
Arthur Scargill, the bellicose president of Britain's National Union of Mineworkers, makes no secret of his Marxist leanings. He even solicited financial support from the Soviets during the miners' 51-week strike that collapsed last March. Just before the union's annual conference in Sheffield last week, the Scargill-dominated N.U.M. executive board reaffirmed its Soviet connection by announcing the selection of 20 miners to attend the Higher Trade Union School in Moscow this fall. The 20, the second N.U.M. group to be sent to the Soviet school, will take a four-week course emphasizing the link between socialism...
...independence from Britain five years ago might prove to be its last. Nearly 3 million black voters flooded the polls last week to provide Prime Minister Robert Mugabe with a solid victory, and a mandate for continuing toward his stated goal of transforming Zimbabwe into a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state...
...nearby American embassy, two American businessmen, five Salvadorans, a Chilean and a Guatemalan. At least 15 people were injured. Witnesses said the gunmen, disguised as Salvadoran army regulars, concentrated their fire on the Marines and even hunted one down in a back room. The killers are presumed to be Marxist rebels, turning to urban terrorism because their guerrilla war in the jungles to bring down the U.S.-backed government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte is making no headway (see WORLD...