Word: marxist
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...Chile," said Santiago's Ambassador to Washington Walter Heitmann last week, "is going to be a masterpiece of democracy." The occasion for that grandiose claim was the first anniversary of the death of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens and the replacement of his elected government by a military regime. In light of the junta's record of suspended civil rights, torture of political prisoners and abolition of Congress, the ambassador's assertion seemed an overstatement. The thousands of Chileans who gathered in Santiago to commemorate the coup of Sept. 11 seemed to be celebrating the absolute order...
...When fighting between Portuguese colonial troops and Mozambique liberation guerrillas was at its fiercest, Roman Catholic Archbishop Custodio Alvim Pereira of Lourenço Marques had little patience with some of the Catholic missionaries who denounced Portuguese atrocities. The denunciations were "Marxist propaganda," he thundered, adding that priests who indulged in such criticism were departing from their role as ministers of the Gospel. When a fellow prelate disagreed, Pereira had him hustled off to Portugal under military escort. Last week the archbishop found himself being hustled away. After a visit from a Vatican cardinal, Pereira abruptly resigned his Mozambique diocese...
...nationally and at Harvard, but at Harvard last year it had committees working with the United Farm Workers, on the Honeywell and Ford demonstrations, with the printers, and with Afro for the Third World Center, among other things. Members also have consciousness-raising sessions for women, men and homosexuals, Marxist study groups and workshops on graphic posters and literate leaflets. At Harvard, they're probably the closest thing there is to the old SDS before it got torn apart by factionalism and anger...
...Warnings. Then there are the guerrillas. Although there has been a lull in terrorism, most observers feel that the leftist Peronists and the out-and-out guerrillas have only been taking stock. Both the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.) and the Montoneros, left-wing Peronist guerrillas, have issued warnings of new revolutionary activity. Wrote Domingo Menna, a high E.R.P. officer, "We are at the beginning of a revolutionary situation...
That thought merged a kind of messianism with Hegelian and Marxian determinism, the idea that vast and blind historical forces sweep across the world's stage without important regard to personalities. But of course that Marxist thought is invalidated by Marxist his tory ? the crucial "heroic" role played by men like Marx himself, and Lenin and Stalin. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that "men have lived who did what no substitute could ever have done; their intervention set history on one path rather than another. If this is so, the old maxim There are no indispensable men' would seem another...