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...high on the hate list of Chile's right-wing military government. Letelier had been one of Chile's most prominent citizens-in-exile. An economist, a lawyer and a committed Socialist, he was sent to Washington as Santiago's ambassador by Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens in 1971. Two years later, Letelier returned home to take a series of top Cabinet jobs during the frenetic final days of the Allende regime. Imprisoned by the junta that succeeded Allende, Letelier was freed in mid-1975. Returning to Washington as an economist at the Institute...
Some of the other positions they hold, however, are shared by fellow delegates, and as I sit and talk at length with Bernie, Jack and Daniel Eller, a former professor of Music at Eastern Michigan University who quit because of the "Marxist orientation of the department," I learn if there is one issue that really drives them it's the pro-life movement...
Thus, SftP stresses its political analysis of scientific questions, which most often seems to be Marxist in character. King says they are interested in asking basic questions, such as the reason for the original development of nuclear energy as a priority instead of less dangerous alternative forms. On this and other issues, many members consider the best method for understanding social problems to be a recognition of monopoly corporations' dominance over public policy...
Successors must be Marxist-Leninists, they must serve the interest of the majority of the people, they must unite the majority, they must display the democratic style, and they must conduct selfcriticism. What I have in mind is not complete . . . You must not always think that you alone will do and that everything done by others is no good, as without you the world would not turn and there would be no party . . . There is no need to fear for the death of anyone. Whose death would be a great loss? Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, are they...
...before. The people who go are a relatively small group who become therapy junkies." Others insist that today's narcissism is far broader, a cultural phenomenon growing out of two seemingly competing features of the 1960s and 1970s, rising personal affluence and deepening individual power lessness. The late Marxist sociologist Theodor Adorno took what is probably the darkest view. Capitalism, he maintained, causes such alienation that "narcissistic merger" of the disaffected with charismatic fascist leaders is becoming more likely. Other critics argue that Americans are turning inward because of a sense that individuals cannot have important social or political...