Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sleeper said Marxist thought helped explain the school shootings in Littleton, Colo.--implying corporate America's marketing of violence as acceptable lay behind the tragedy...
Sleeper said Marxist thought helped explain the school shootings in Littleton, Colo.-implying corporate America's marketing of violence as acceptable lay behind the tragedy...
...leader to "kill these sons of bitches." Although an arrest order has been issued for Briceno, the rebels are refusing to hand him over to authorities. And it's doubtful that he will face the FARC's military tribunal: his brother is second-in-command of the FARC, a Marxist guerrilla group that controls a large swath of Colombian territory. Insiders claim that the Bricenos represent those within the FARC who are opposed to peace talks with Colombian authorities, and the murders of the three Americans may have been an attempt to force the government to back away from negotiations...
...communism was just a passing phase. His wife, a fervent Marxist, says ideology has never meant as much to Milosevic as it does to her. When he saw a chance to grab power, he pushed the communists aside and refashioned himself as a nationalist. In 1987 he went to Kosovo, the cradle of Serbian identity, to soothe the grievances of local Serbs, and he made his name by declaring, "No one shall be allowed to beat you." Milosevic was moved less by Serb nationalism than by its power to electrify. "After that night," recounted a Serb journalist, "there...
...Joseph Stalin's favorite scientist, and it's easy to see why. Lysenko was a peasant-born agronomist and Marxist ideologue who rejected Mendel's ideas because they contradicted the doctrine of dialectical materialism. He offered instead to solve the Soviet Union's chronic crop failures through a process he called vernalization, by which he would "train" spring wheat to be winter wheat and thus increase the number of annual harvests. Lysenko believed all living organisms passed on to succeeding generations characteristics acquired in their lifetime. This untested theory was at odds with what Lysenko scathingly called "alien bourgeois" genetics...