Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that changed in April 1978, when Noor Muhammad Taraki, a Soviet-supported Marxist, seized power in Kabul. It would be 20 months before Moscow would send the first of some 100,000 troops to occupy the country, but Soviet advisers were already leading the Afghan army in search-and-destroy missions across the countryside. The residents of Dobanday first became alarmed when they heard that the new regime was attacking religious leaders and traditions. The authorities then arrested two local elders and decreed that all houses in the settlement be thrown open for inspection...
...Nicaraguan heat on a March day in 1983, Pope John Paul II was forced to demand silence from a crowd of Sandinista hecklers present at an outdoor Mass in Managua. When Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a Roman Catholic priest who also serves as Minister of Culture in Nicaragua's Marxist government, knelt to receive the Pope's blessing, John Paul wagged his finger in Cardenal's face and chided him, "You must straighten out your position with the church." These episodes, and his own keen observations during an eight-day-long visit to Central America, made a lasting...
...brands it in its more extreme forms as a perversion of the Christian message. Upholding the primacy of traditional Catholic teaching, the document aims at alerting "the faithful to the deviations . . . damaging to the faith and to Christian living produced by forms of liberation theology that uncritically borrow Marxist ideas." It declares that Marxism holds out the false hope that a revolutionary society will be a just one, while itself creating new forms of oppression. Those who aid such revolutions, it says, "betray the very poor they mean to help." The Vatican warns that radical theologians, by building Christian teaching...
...Administration has been asking for four concessions from Nicaragua: 1) an end to the Sandinistas' military ties with Cuba and the Soviet Union, including the removal from the country of some 3,500 Communist military advisers; 2) an end to Nicaraguan support for the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador; 3) curtailment of the country's formidable military arsenal and of any plans to use Nicaragua's Punta Huete airport, still under construction, as a base for advanced military aircraft; 4) fulfillment of Sandinista promises to support political pluralism, meaning reversal of the country's drift toward...
...liberation theology, Boff contends, "there is no direct link to Marxism"; theologians may employ Marxist theory and terms, but they are anticapitalist not pro-Marxist. Boff states, "We oppose state socialism because it is authoritarianism. We do, however, recognize that countries like Cuba are better off now than before the revolution. For one thing, there are no slums in Cuba...