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...Science for People has foisted on him: "To believe in a certain amount of genetic determination makes you a reactionary, and a means to further the interests of the ruling classes." He also wonders whether the group represents the consensus of the radical left. For instance, Wilson notes that Marxist Herbert Marcuse wrote in the sixties that he believes in some form of biological determinism. And, Wilson cites passages in the recently published "Reflections on Language" by the leftist Noam Chomsky, as indicating that the radical environmental notion of man being infinitely plastic is probably both incorrect and dangerous...
GUILT. The Marxist argument has a superior capacity to induce guilt, and [America's capacity to absorb] guilt is what makes us most human as well as, at times, a bit absurd. It is said that if a Communist regime were to take over in the Sahara, there would in time be a shortage of sand. We shall doubtless in time have tested that hypothesis, but we can be fairly confident that to the very end there would be those in the West convinced that the sand had gone to build swimming pools for the rich-in the West...
...work; Pasolini, like Zola in his time, saw in the "ragazzi di vita," who have neither ideals nor morals, a mirror image of the capitalist bourgeois who wield power in Italy. But Pasolini proposed no alternative to the existing power structure. Though he professed commuunism, Pasolini was no Marxist or Maoist, but a utopian, a romantic. His vision of the future society was of a "natural" society, a return to some pastoral arcadia (such as the one his early poems describe, inspired by the gentle countryside near Friuli). Taking refuge in literature, Pasolini found only intellectual answers to the economic...
...Catholic Worker Movement and still its indefatigable voice. She has been jailed eight times-most recently as an illegal picketer for Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers in 1973. (Many regard Chavez himself as a saint for his selfless, intensely spiritual devotion to his cause.) A Marxist in the '20s, she bore a daughter to her common-law husband, but became a celibate after converting to Catholicism. "The best thing to do with the best things in life," she says, "is to give them...
They were less interested in Zayad's Marxist politics than his usefulness as a symbol of protest against years of abuse by local leaders. Zayad prudently soft-pedaled his membership in Rakah, the small Moscow-leaning Israeli Communist party that holds four of the Knesset's 120 seats. "I did not run as a representative of Rakah," he insists. "I am a Nazarene...