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DIED. Ernst Bloch, 92, unorthodox Marxist philosopher with a sizable following among student radicals; of a heart attack; in Tubingen, West Germany. His master work, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), completed during his prewar years in the U.S., laid the groundwork for Theologian Jũrgen Moltmann's "philosophy of hope." Bloch later taught at the University of Leipzig, East Germany, before defecting to the West in 1961 because he was "no longer willing to expose my work or myself to undignified conditions...
...most vocal critics have been Marxist and other scholars with political points to make. University of Chicago Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins dismisses sociobiology as "genetic capitalism"?an attempt to defend the current structures of Western society as natural and inevitable. Jerome Schneewind, a philosopher at Manhattan's Hunter College, calls it "mushy metaphor . . . a souped-up version of Hobbes." Harvard Evolutionary Biologist Richard Lewontin is earthier; he thinks sociobiology is "bullshit...
...Marxist sociologists suggest that we see ourselves in the cars we choose. Young, assertive, loud, one is a Triumph or a Porsche. As we become more burdened, we evolve into Ford station wagons. Last seen of all that ends this strange eventful history, a man becomes a settled sedan: perhaps a Seville. Perhaps a used 1967 Chevy...
...Marxist philosophy holds that the most important problem does not lie in understanding the laws of the objective world and thus being able to explain it, but in applying the knowledge of these laws actively to change the world...
...year-old recruits, and commanding officers are elected by their men. Each fighter dresses as he pleases, but all wear black plastic sandals that are said to be good in any weather and any terrain. Every recruit receives two months of basic military training and a heavy dose of Marxist political indoctrination; recent emphasis has been on the writings of Mao Tse-tung and on vague plans for a socialist state after independence. "Socialism will be dominant," Chairman Nasser told TIME'S Brelis, "but we will have to define it as we go along...