Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Among students and faculty, [Marxism] doesn't cut much ice anymore," says Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack Jr. '59, a self-described Marxist who has been at Harvard since...
...Harvard, the development means different things to different people. For zealous purists, it means another purchase in the larger sell-out of college athletics. For stuffy academics, it means the elevation of a recreational position--football coach--to the status of a tenured professorship. And for Marxist intellectuals, it means a snaky move by prissy, bourgeois capitalist universities to dominate their proletarian counterparts on the grid-iron...
...hard to believe that we risked the lives of American soldiers for a known Marxist [Aristide]," Campbell says...
Castro then returned, disastrously, to Marxist principle. In February and March he cracked down on the flourishing black markets that had sprung up, particularly in food. Police stopped all vehicles coming from the countryside into cities and searched them for contraband food to make sure that farmers sold only to the state, not to private buyers. Food shortages intensified...
...that logic ignores what the U.S. has learned about helping communist countries feel their way toward freedom -- and the booming American trade with other Marxist regimes. Washington is moving toward full trade and diplomatic ties with Vietnam, whose human-rights record is no better than Cuba's. It is holding extensive talks with North Korea, the worst troglodyte of all Stalinist regimes. And when Bill Clinton extended most-favored-nation tariff treatment to Beijing last May, he argued that "the best path for advancing freedom in China is for the United States to intensify and broaden its engagement with that...