Word: marxist
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...THEORETICAL trappings of For Her Own Good are its most serious drawback. Unfortunately, for the easily discouraged reader, the hefty first chapter is hard going. An oversimplified Marxist interpretation of the industrial revolution accompanies broad generalizations about women before and after and allows the authors to construct a dichotomy of rationalist and romantic views of women. The romanticists idealize pre-industrial women who supposedly led full, productive lives. Although they were inferior in status to men, the argument goes, they worked so hard that they didn't have time to worry about it. The post-industrial romanticist maintains that women...
...commonly asserted that the black liberation movements in South Africa are under Marxist control, and that if they succeed South Africa will become a socialist society. Is this true...
...true that the liberation movements are led by Marxists, but I don't believe that a black-ruled South Africa will be rigidly ideological. Of course, you're asking me for a prediction of a post-revolutionary situation in which the revolution hasn't even occurred. Sure there will be Marxist influences, but there will be capitalist influences, too. There will be all sorts of influences: it's going to be a real African mix, such as you encounter in most parts of Africa. If Africans embrace Marxism, you'll end up not recognizing Marxism. I think that post-revolutionary...
...murder of a minor British embassy official named West (well-played by Trevor Barnes). Throughout the play he is the detached observer of Indians either viciously slaughtered or "civilized." West dies eventually--killed for no reason by Carlos (Jeff Horwitz), an otherwise affable guerrilla, in a mockery of the Marxist's own vision of justice...
Wojtyla wrote last year that Jesus Christ is "a reproach to the affluent consumer society ... The great poverty of people, especially in the Third World ?hunger, economic exploitation, colonialism?all these signify an opposition to Christ by the powerful." Advocates of the Marxist-influenced "liberation theology" in Latin America thus hope that the Pope will be sympathetic to their program. But knowledgeable observers in Rome expect the opposite. Asked on West German TV last year whether Marxism could be reconciled with Christianity, Wojtyla replied bluntly: "This is a curious question. One cannot be a Christian and a materialist...