Word: marxist
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...notes, remains underappreciated among the French. They certainly know Lévy, whose bronzed, leonine visage is familiar from talk shows and gossip columns. "BHL," as he is known at home, exploded onto the literary scene at age 28 with Barbarism with a Human Face, in which he excoriated Marxist intellectuals for complicity in communist horrors. In 30-odd books since then, he has remained provocative and, unusually for a French thinker, pro-American. "I have been coming to the U.S. for 40 years," says Lévy, 57, from an airport lounge in Washington, amid a punishingly long book...
...though, was French Prime Minister Leon Blum’s remarks to a visiting German minister in 1936. While talking to the ambassador of an ideology that would, in the near future, invade his country and butcher millions of his coreligionists he said: “I am a Marxist and a Jew, but we cannot achieve anything if we treat ideological barriers as insurmountable...
...status quo might have stood even longer than it did, Gaddis argues, but along came Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev, all prepared to think anew. By that time, thanks to the manifest failures of the Marxist system, so were a lot of other people. More than the disposition of forces, victory in the war of ideas was crucial to ending the cold war. When the Berlin Wall finally fell, communism was so discredited that not even communists believed in it anymore...
...have heard several professors—including some who are right of center—lament: “Where did all the communist students go?” And it is true that until relatively recently there was a small but critical mass of communist, or at least Marxist, students equipped with enough oddball ideals to make even the most bleeding heart congeal...
DERY: Maybe I'm channeling my inner Marxist here--which I'm sure will give David a fit of vapors...