Word: marxist
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...debate were in stark contrast to my opponents. I tried to be calm and rational, to beat back the anti-communism of the teacher of the course and deal with the issues that were on the minds of the students. Maybe the writer was surprised that a Marxist-Leninist could do that. I tried to destroy the stereotypes about communists. From what was printed in The Crimson the next day it seems my efforts were of no avail. When unable to find something in my presentation that sounded extremist and crazy" the reporter simply found a more "suitable" quote...
Moscow could hardly take such heresies lightly. Even before the Torun gathering, Pravda had stepped up its attacks on those within the Polish party who held "views foreign to a Marxist-Leninist party." In the view of many Western analysts, the liberal evolution of the Polish party could pose a far more serious threat to the Soviets than the independent labor movement. Indeed, the situation seemed increasingly to resemble that of Czechoslovakia in 1968, when a party-led reform movement finally brought on a Soviet-led invasion. In the case of Poland, the immediate invasion threat appeared to be receding...
...PROBLEMS DESCRIBED will be compounded by other proposed changes, such as the planned omission of subtopics on women in nineteenth century America, and Marxist theory. Though not popular among tutors, the "women in history" topic should be left as an alternative for those who wish to teach it. The symbolic gesture of removing the reading list on women from circulation is a very confusing signal from a department that claims to be open-minded...
...they edge toward a decision in Poland, the Methuselahs of Moscow figure that they have not only the slogan of Marxist-Leninist internationalism on their side to justify an invasion, but 36 years of precedents as well. Many of these men, after all, have careers that stretch back to 1945 and the wartime Allied conference at Yalta, which established a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. In Joseph Stalin's eyes, Poland was the most important part of that sphere because it is a buffer between Russia and Germany...
...many black Africans, the U.S. generosity was an encouraging sign at an otherwise disturbing moment. It was an obvious attempt to shore up the government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe-even though he is a Marxist-and it ran counter to the Reagan Administration's recently announced cuts in foreign aid. Still, the American pledge came just as the U.S. seemed to be warming up to white-ruled South Africa. The combination of events suggested that the White House was trying to reverse a policy that has been in force for two decades. The policy said, in effect...