Word: marxist
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...elect's hawkish talk, the U.S. Congress looks ready this summer to approve the Bush Administration's request for some half a billion dollars in military aid for Colombia; it would be the first time the U.S. has funded counterinsurgency in Latin America since the 1980s. In response, the Marxist FARC has stepped up its violence. That is drawing more fire still from the nation's outlawed right-wing paramilitary groups, the Colombian Self-Defense Units, or AUC, which are infamous for massacring villagers they deem friendly to the FARC. On election night, Uribe seemed to concede that his presidency...
...ties, and reveled in his homosexuality. "He was like a jester, the one who holds up a mirror to the politicians and says, 'Look, you're ugly,'" notes Arthur Ringeling, a political scientist at Rotterdam's Erasmus University. Raised in a middle-class Catholic family, Fortuyn was a nominal Marxist during his university studies but later joined the Labor Party. With a doctorate in sociology, he became a professor at Erasmus in 1990. Though he was popular with his students, a university committee judged his scholarly efforts inadequate, and he resigned in 1995. By then he already had a successful...
Freshman year: I start dating an FM executive who fancies himself a Marxist of sorts. I begin to convert myself to angry liberalism peppered with snide remarks regarding the wealthy, the established, the nationalist, the patriotic. I caress my Dover edition of Theory of the Leisure Class and use phrases such as “pecuniary emulation” and “consumer consciousness.” I think Juliet Schor (czarina of “Shop ’Til You Drop”) embodies the ideal human. I adhere to Harvard liberalism and hatred of the military...
...people on a moped, the 51-year-old father of two was shot four times. A group calling itself the Red Brigades - the same band of left-wing terrorists that carried out previous attacks - claimed responsibility. In a rambling manifesto posted on the Web, the group spewed antiquated Marxist-Leninist rhetoric and praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
...veteran leader of Angolan rebel group unita, killed in a gun battle with government troops, according to the army; in Angola's remote Moxico province. Savimbi founded UNITA in 1966 to fight Portuguese colonialism, but when the country gained independence in 1975 he lost power to the then-Marxist MPLA, which has remained in government ever since. He won support from the West by portraying himself as an anticommunist freedom fighter before becoming internationally isolated after refusing to accept the results of the country's first-ever elections in 1992 and then rejecting three subsequent peace accords, ensuring the continuation...