Word: marxist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...English couple, Cyril (Philip Davis), a motorcycle messenger, and his wife Shriley (Ruth Sheen). The couple live with Cyril’s mother and become invoved in the sagas of his mother’s neighbors and his sister. Shirley yearns to be a mother, but Cyril, a Marxist, wants to live in a utopia and is reluctant to start a family. High Hopes screens Saturday, August...
...Rather than regale readers with jokes, Steel aims to present the history of a serious subject leavened with irreverent observations and quirky tidbits. Infused with an unabashedly political viewpoint, it's a surprisingly informative read. Sure, the airwaves are awash with an endless parade of history programs, but for Marxist comedian Steel most of the dons lecturing us about the Tudors or lamenting Britain's lost Empire "reek of pomposity." Steel's approach is to focus on things you don't find in the textbooks. Like the titillating contention that the most popular radical works of the Enlightenment, such...
...Soviet death toll is even more grisly. Nearly 62 million died as the living were sacrificed for the unborn to build a future Marxist utopia. Millions upon millions were shot, starved, tortured and worked to death for the sake of realizing an ideology...
During the last century, governments murdered millions more of their own innocent citizens in Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Vietnam, Poland, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, North Korea and Mexico. Perhaps the purest expression of a bloody Marxist revolution took place during a few years in the 1970s, when Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge exterminated 2.5 million of their 7 million souls. Over one-third of the population was intentionally murdered—and this number excludes the 1.5 million more killed in war or rebellion...
...common theme among all of these is that they begin when a militant state or utopian ideology is valued and empowered over and above the dignity of the individual. What is often overlooked is the disregard for human life and inherent violence that necessarily accompany Marxist revolution—as dissenters and bourgeois are continually purged, communist ideology was actually realized, not neglected, under Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot. As a politics of somber memory, the “liberalism of fear” memorializes those who died to serve someone else’s ideology. These wrenching human tragedies...