Word: marxist
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...Little Red Book amply demonstrates, Mao was the most readable of Marxist theoreticians. But in other speeches, poems and letters, Mao displayed even more strikingly than in the book a command of pungent metaphor, as well as occasional flights of lyricism. A sampler...
...after all, under severe pressure at the moment. At home, he has been hurt by the current turmoil. To the north, he is challenged by Marxist regimes in Angola and Mozambique. His strategy now is to reduce interracial pressure on South Africa by finding political solutions in Rhodesia and Namibia-but in such a way that his country's security is not jeopardized. In so doing, he hopes to buy South Africa enough time to fashion a genuine détente with black Africa...
...insistence that Red economies satisfy consumer needs instead of concentrating only on the development of heavy industry. Now the Soviet bloc is following an even more heretical strategy that might be called credit-card Communism-the customers in this case being governments rather than individuals. Totally violating Marxist prejudices, the Soviet Union and its six economic allies in Eastern Europe* are trying to modernize their antiquated economies by borrowing heavily from their supposed class enemies, the capitalists of the West...
...there is no hopes that they will be able to win a clear majority in the fall elections. Worse, the Social Democrats have been weakened by internal dissension. Schmidt has been hard-pressed to bring the rebellious left wing of the party under control. The "Jusos" or Young Marxist hardly support Schmidt's policies and their vociferous demands for more widespread nationalization, more welfare programs, and bitter criticism of the way Bonn is handling the Baader-Meinhoff trial have antagonized SPD moderates and conservatives, and disturbed the German electorate. Further, the right wing of the SPD is very unhappy with...
...three years since the overthrow of the Marxist Allende government, according to respected church sources, an estimated 1,000 Chileans have been tortured to death by the ruthlessly efficient secret police, the DINA. In one wave of arrests 18 months ago 2,000 people were brought in; 370 have never been seen again. These gruesome statistics confirm the worst fears of many Chileans, that certain suspects are marked first to be tortured-generally for information about their political associations-and then executed...