Word: marxist
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...pets, instead writing on how inane the topics were; although an initial grader flunked him, the supervising grader gave him a perfect score, the same he had got on his other entrance exams. At Yale (Phi Beta Kappa, Skull and Bones) he wrote a noted essay, "Is Lenin a Marxist?"; an editorial in the Yale Daily News calling for abolition of the football team; and a scholarly paper arguing for America's entry into World War II: "I believe in the dignity of the individual, in government by law, in respect for the truth, and in a good God; these...
Pasquale savors law reviews and political philosophy. He says the Unabomber developed a sophisticated social theory, and he worships theorist Jurgen Habermas as the one who crystallized "all my latent Marxist, critical theoretical and radical democratic intuitions about what had gone wrong with the American public sphere...
...military bases for closing. He rose so rapidly through his party's ranks that after the 1994 elections, he ran unopposed for the job of majority leader. But he continued to show a defiant streak, sometimes to the point of crudeness. He has suggested that Hillary Clinton was a "Marxist," told Democrats in the House that Bill Clinton was "your President" and (he says unintentionally) referred to an openly gay colleague, Representative Barney Frank, as "Barney...
MENGISTU HAILE MARIAM, 59; Ousted Marxist President of Ethiopia From 1977 to 1991, he ruled supreme. Now he is Addis Ababa's most reviled criminal defendant. Five years after he was driven out of his country by rebels, Ethiopia's Red Terror despot is being tried on charges of murder and genocide--in absentia. The guest of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe since 1991 (apparently in gratitude for the help he gave Mugabe's independence struggle in the 1970s), Mengistu lives in luxurious exile in a government-supplied villa in an exclusive suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, safe from repeated...
...neighbors might not like it, but remaking the Soviet empire is a bedrock issue for the communists' new coalition. It is central to Zyuganov's strategy of pulling in non-Marxist nationalists and anti-Western and pan-Slavic ideologues. This is not something completely new for communists. Even in the heyday of Soviet power, there were two tendencies in the leadership. The internationalist wing of the party put Marxist revolutionary goals above Soviet national interests. The opposing "statist" group--followers and admirers of Stalin--put Russia first. So do they...