Word: marxist
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...problems are magnified by the fact that the opposition does not arise from a single political sector, like the communists, or a single cultural group, like the religious conservatives, who remain his most vocal and articulate foes. The dissent cuts across class, religious and political divisions, ranging from Marxist students on the extreme left to Western-educated intellectuals, professionals and businessmen in the center to religious zealots on the far right. The mullahs, for all their abhorrence of the decadent excesses of modernism, have traditionally been political progressives and nationalists in their outlook...
Samuelson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, brunted much criticism for his book. In the spring of 1977, a Marxist economist wrote an antithesis to Samuelson's book called "Anti-Samuelson...
...academic exercise. Barrett is convinced that the history of ideas foreshadows the fate of the Western world. His vision of the future, in both its American and Russian versions-Skinner's programmed Utopia vs. the triumph of Soviet totalitarianism-sometimes sounds like a science-fiction scenario. A former Marxist, Barrett shares with other victims of the god that failed a dramatic anxiety about the menace of Communism...
...Assad does have opposition. Syria is a predominantly Sunni Muslim country. There are complaints that the Alawites, an Islamic sect to which Assad belongs, represent only 10% of the people most top government offices. Some hard-line Baath Party members grumble that Assad is watering down the Marxist policies of previous regimes, while Syrian entrepreneurs think he has moved too slowly away from Baathism's doctrinaire socialism...
...deadly logical consequence of an atheistic, man-centered system of values, enforced by fallible human beings with total power, who believe, with Marx, that morality is whatever the powerful define it to be and, with Mao, that power grows from gun barrels. By no coincidence the most humane Marxist societies in Europe today are those that, like Poland or Hungary, permit the dilution of their doctrine by what Solzhenitsyn has called "the great reserves of mercy and sacrifice" from a Christian tradition. Yet if there is any doubt about what the focus of the purest of revolutionary values is, consider...