Word: marxist
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...think China is going capitalist?" It is not, of course. The key means of production remain in the ! hands of the state, and the Communist Party is firmly in charge. The question that should be asked is this: Is China growing out of its half-century-long embrace of Marxist metaphysics? The answer is a qualified...
...Development Bank, a lending institution supported by 43 nations, to grant a $58 million loan to that country. Secretary of State George Shultz personally expressed "strong opposition" to the loan, claiming that it would enable the Sandinistas to "free other money that could be used to help consolidate the Marxist regime and finance Nicaragua's aggression against its neighbors." The bank's top officers agreed to reconsider the loan...
...elimination of radical sections, which offered a Marxist critique of neo-classical economies in addition to teaching the standard course material, first prompted concern among section leaders last fall. The sections--which were over-subscribed by 100 percent last year--were extremely popular. Four hundreds students signed petitions last fall protesting their removal...
Today, Caravaggio almost ranks with Rembrandt and Velasquez as the most popular of all 17th century artists. Mythmaking has something to do with this. We have a proto-Marxist Caravaggio, the painter of common people with dirty feet and ragged sleeves. There is also a homosexual Caravaggio, moved into the spotlight during the '70s by gay liberation: the painter of overripe, peachy bits of rough trade, with yearning mouths and hair like black ice cream. Most of all, there is Caravaggio the avant-gardist...
Chorn and Hong began their account with the 1975 overthrow of King Sihanouk by Pol Pot's Marxist Khmer Rouge forces. Cities were emptied as intellectuals, lighted skinned Cambodians, and monks were herded into farming camps where they were worked to death, they said...