Word: marxist
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...Nicaragua, four Roman Catholic priests remain as officials in the Marxist- led Sandinista government in defiance of canon law, which prohibits priests from holding public office. One of the priests was expelled from the Society of Jesus in December; the other three priests were forbidden in January by the Vatican to perform their sacerdotal duties if they did not resign in two weeks. Insists Fernando Cardenal Martinez, the former Jesuit and Nicaragua's Education Minister: "There is no basic religious problem between the church and the revolution. What exists is a political confrontation...
...making a negative judgement about everything that is called liberation theology, but if it's a liberation theology working out of a Marxist analysis, it is inconsistent with the Christian view of the dignity of the human person...
...outside the Church makes him a valuable asset. Fluent in Sp0anish, the Archbishop was one of five key American clergymen to tour Cuba last week. There he participated in a three hour long discussion with Fidel Castro, led the3 largest Catholic mass in that country's 25-year Marxist regime, and asked that nation's leaders to consider releasing almost 100 political prisoners...
NOTHING, IN FACT, is less conspiratorial than a Marxist working class organization whose success is entirely dependent upon the open and widest dissemination of its views. The FBI's agreement to change its definition of the Spartacist League implicitly but clearly spikes the government's deadly definition--that all political opponents are de facto terrorists. It is a modest but genuine blow to the new McCarthyism...
Moreover, the change in definition undermines the FBI's premise that Marxist political organizations are equated with violence, which has been the pretext for over 60 years of surveillance, harassment and repression of the American left and the workers movement. From the persecution of Eugene V. Debs under the Espionage Act during World War I through the Smith Act attack on Trotskyists in the 1940s and the Communist Party in the 1950s, the drive for imperialist war abroad has always has always justified a war at home against all opposition. Under the guise of combatting "terrorism", FBI guidelines, presidential directives...