Word: marxist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...legend has come to an end, and it’s time to think of someone who can fill his shoes. Arafat had a miraculous ability to unite all Palestinians despite their differences. The secular, the religious, the leftist, the rightist, the capitalist and the Marxist all had different problems and conflicts of interests with each other and with Arafat. But at the end of the day all came and acknowledged his authority. Arafat to Palestinians, was like God to monotheists. They may all differ in the way they go about their daily lives, the way they solve their problems...
...Campus status in a way that I first thought it would. Neither did playing lacrosse—a sport I was actually decent at—since we had to listen to a coach who once spent an entire practice arguing with five guys about the benefits of a Marxist-Leninist style of socialism and led us to a four-win season my junior year. Being a jock wasn’t exactly a ticket to social acceptance. To say the least, it took me a while to find friends...
Mozambique, a formerly Marxist country, had the fastest growing economy in the world in the late nineties. “We are busy creating Capitalists,” Chissano said. “There was a time when people were afraid of us because we were Marxists...
...arrogant, pampered technocrats--and a cookie jar for Venezuela's elite, whose corruption has left two-thirds of the population in poverty. Among the poor was Rodriguez's farming family. It made him all the more receptive to economists like Bernard Mommer, a German-born Marxist who taught Rodriguez at Caracas' Central University. As a Congressman, Rodriguez chafed in the 1990s as PDVSA opened up to what he considered excessive foreign investment and hiked production...
...liberal Democrat who supported Howard Dean and Bill Clinton. I have supported gay marriage since birth, or at least that’s how I feel. My social vision for this country, as my conservative Republican roommate likes to point out, sometimes borders on Marxist...