Word: marxist
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...Lyndon Johnson knew of or supported assassination attempts against foreign leaders, such as the bizarre plan to supply poisoned cigars to Fidel Castro. L.B.J. approved Operation Phoenix, in which agents directed the killing of Viet Cong terrorists. In Chile, the CIA gave money and other help to opponents of Marxist Salvador Allende. But there is no evidence connecting the CIA to the coup that overthrew and killed Allende in 1973, though the episode gave the U.S. a black eye. The CIA'S surveillance of American citizens was grossly exaggerated by much of the press. One clear abuse by the agency...
...focus among the many opinions and levels of argument he presents. He uses social history occasionally to illustrate a point, yet he sometimes seems to write from an entirely theoretical perspective. He writes mostly about studies of the family rather than about the family itself: he opens with a Marxist discussion of the place of the family in capitalist society, and in his conclusion he uses psychoanalytic theory to analyze the current problems in families. The conclusion seems fitting in its application of psychology to social problems, a synthetic finish to a theoretical discussion. But it fails to connect with...
Lasch studies the family as a traditional institution crumbling under the strains of competitive, modern society. In his sometimes dogmatically Marxist paradigm, the family as an institution embodies the contradictions of capitalism. Just as the early industrialists "socialised" production by taking productive activity out of the home, he argues, society is now achieving "the socialization of reproduction." While parents still seem to manage their families, they do so under the watchful eyes of doctors, psychiatrists, educators and other "experts." Marriage is invaded by advisers on "the joy of sex" and the proper mix of "love and orgasm...
...outbursts against members of groups like Hare Krishna are generally hysterical. Perhaps the contrast can be explained by the uneasiness--sometimes terror--people have felt since before the time of Socrates when faced with something they do not understand. Thus, a financier may quite coldly denounce a Marxist critique of the capitalist system, but when he is told that his son or daughter has joined a mystical Oriental sect he goes frantic trying to combat a system that baffles...
...earliest days of the war with the South, aiding Hanoi with loans for food and economic development. Peking, too, has given economic aid to Hanoi, if only to maintain a competitive position there with Moscow. At the same time, China, despite its distaste for Pol Pot's more-Marxist-than-thou zealotry, has continued to support Cambodia, where the Soviet Union has no leverage...