Word: marxist
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...mystified his friends in the solidly Republican town of Ben Avon, a Pittsburgh suburb, by declaring himself a socialist. His father, a purchasing agent for a steel company, and his mother, a teacher, both thought the flirtation with socialism was crazy. "I read The Coming Struggle for Power, a Marxist analysis of capitalism by John Strachey," he recalled later. "It was powerful stuff and I thought it was probably true...
Next week in Miami, Pope John Paul II begins a ten-day visit to the U.S., the 36th major journey by this most peripatetic of Roman Catholic Pontiffs. He has worshiped with exotically clad Papuans and has preached to hundreds of thousands in Marxist Managua. But though he has been to the U.S. three times / previously -- as Pope in 1979 and twice before that as Archbishop of Cracow in Poland -- he has not encountered anything anywhere quite so complex and independent as today's American Catholic...
...Soviet-literature courses with gusto, as well as enough fellow immigrants so that he never has to feel insecure about his English. The transplanted jazz fan is disappointed to learn that his beloved music has been shouldered out of the marketplace by rock. But he gains a grudging, un-Marxist respect for the market itself. "The sad fact," he writes, "is that the human race has failed to invent a system of economic relations more natural than money." He even comes to appreciate American football and shows a visiting Soviet the televised carnage. Says the awestruck guest: "A country that...
...slam-on-the-brakes ending further unsettles the audience. Orton is too clever to present a simplistic, Marxist denouement where the proles emerge victorious. Instead, when the campers achieve their victory, they, including fireball Kenny, are unwilling to face up to what they did. The Erpingham insurgents begin to praise their own dictator; "revolution" accomplished nothing. They are back to square one as is the audience. The audience must be wondering who or what to believe in, and Orton's nihilism offers little comfort...
...Soviets have, in fact, seemed somewhat cautious about the military support they now provide Nicaragua. But so far Moscow has been unwilling to abandon the Sandinistas or other Third World clients, claiming that U.S. aid to anti-Marxist forces prevents peaceful settlement of local conflicts. As Oliver North argued in his testimony last week, Cuban troops, serving as the Soviet "mercenary army," are stationed in Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Testing the Soviets' true intentions will be tricky; the manipulation of Third World proxies is not an issue that lends itself to formal negotiations. Assistant Secretary Ridgway...