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Amid the moral uproar surrounding the Klitgaard report, the Crimson has provided us with an article that surely dwarfs Klitgaard in arrogance, specious argument, and even racism--Selwyn Cudjoe's "Ideological Trick-Bag." This quasi-Marxist analysis pales in comparison with the sober and informed exchange between Carl Gershman and Dr. Kenneth Clark it sets out to condemn...
...have succeeded to a great extent in creating harmony, but it is too much to expect that in six months we could have transformed every individual in the community. " So says Robert Mugabe, the former nationalist guerrilla leader and self-proclaimed Marxist who took over as the first Prime Minister of independent Zimbabwe six months ago. Since then, he has allayed many of the widespread fears that he might plunge the country into Communism or racial chaos. Instead, the sternly ascetic Mugabe, 56, has preached a policy of national reconciliation and cautious gradualism in economic adjustment. In his sparsely decorated...
...being a Marxist. I think I am a practicing one, but also a practical one. We do not want to see a society divided into classes; we want to build an egalitarian society. [But] we recognize that there has been a capitalist system in this country that has established a viable infrastructure. We recognize that to overthrow that system would be to create no base at all but to create chaos. Therefore, we cannot go around nationalizing the multinationals. We do not believe in the forcible seizure of property...
...real causes are probably ideological. Professor Skocpol's comparative study of revolution makes no secret of its use of Marxist categories and its indebtedness to Barrington Moore (who, though never an engage intellectual himself, in his very best writings owned a great deal to Marx). Despite his searching intellect and broad historical vision, Moore never became a full-fledged member in good standing of the Harvard faculty...
...simple fact is that no Marxists of any kind have ever been granted tenure at Harvard. They may get Assistant Professorships or occasional Senior Lectureships, and Harvard Press has even put out a Marxist book or two. But precedent shows that the University rigidly draws the line at giving lifetime tenure even to the most sophisticated of Marxist minds. There need not be an officially stated policy on this. Ideological and other forces at work at Harvard pretty much insure that things turn out that way. G.H. Bell-Villada Ph.D...