Word: marxist
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Once upon a time, though, the world was his terrified playground. Navigating his way with fluency in six languages, Carlos was an elegant chameleon who prided himself on breaking hearts and heads. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he was the son of an affluent Marxist lawyer who named his three sons Ilyich, Vladimir and Lenin in honor of the Russian revolutionary. His home life had the sparkle of "champagne radicalism," according to Christopher Dobson, one of his biographers...
Neighboring Guyana, also desperate for quick cash, has granted huge concessions to Asian logging consortiums. The former British colony, a victim of years of Marxist economics, is poorer than any other Latin American nation except Haiti and is staggering under a $2 billion foreign debt load, an amount 10 times its gross domestic product. In 1991 the government of President Desmond Hoyte granted a Malaysian-Korean joint venture called Barama Co. Ltd. the rights to log 4.2 million acres in the country's northwest. When voters elected former Marxist Cheddi Jagan as President in 1992, Guyanese conservationists urged...
...wave of terror, personified by Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, is ebbing. "Carlos," says Paul Wilkinson, an expert on terrorism at St. Andrews University in Scotland, "symbolized a terrorism of the extreme left which has almost died out in Europe." Carlos and his Soviet, Marxist and leftist Palestinian allies represent failed ideologies. The inheritors today are nameless Islamic extremists from Hizballah, Hamas and their sponsors -- everyone thinks first of Iran as chief sponsor -- who see themselves as the force of the future in the Middle East. While their cause is the same -- derailing the peace process and destroying Israel -- the Islamists...
...Marxist historian Eugene Genovese, it is "the Question" that almost never gets asked: What did we know, and when did we know it? In other words, when did members of the American left learn that the idealistic cause so many of them supported -- the international communist movement -- "broke all records for mass slaughter, piling up tens of millions of corpses in less than three-quarters of a century"? Genovese's succinct answer: "We knew everything essential and knew it from the beginning" -- and therefore the left was guilty of abetting unspeakable crimes...
Coming from, say, a neoconservative, this challenge to the left would be about as surprising as the Pope proclaiming his faith in God. But the Brooklyn-born Genovese, 64, the distinguished scholar-in-residence at Atlanta's University Center, has impeccable leftist credentials. Marxist theory, he readily admits, informed his landmark study of slavery in the American South, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. Briefly a Communist Party member, he remained, by his own admission, "a supporter of the international movement and of the Soviet Union until there was nothing left to support." Particularly shocking to Genovese...