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...book The Key to Heaven and Conversations with the Devil, Kolakowski brings dialectical reason and Marxist exegesis to bear on such unsuspecting material as the ass of Balaam, the quarrel over Job, and Martin Luther's argument with the devil in the bathroom mirror. Ostensibly a hodge-podge of theological quibbles, the book sews its cases in point together with the strong thread of a sophisticated socialist ethics, and a delightful sense of both the fun and sometimes the necessity of playing havoc with the party line...
Kowlakowski does not assume a particularized knowledge of dialectical materialism or post-Marxist debate, but he demands familiarity with the basic philosophical issues. The idealist versus materialist argument, the role of praxis, the creation of ideology, the objectivity of labor all crop up time and again in his various case studies...
CONTEMPORARY feminists are not faced with Nora's dilemma at all, because there have been other routes carved out. From the twenties suffragette reformists to the sixties radical collectivists the consciousness of female deprivation has steadily deepened. Marxist thinking revealed the socio-political contradictions inherent in patriarchal oppression; psychoanalysis uncovered the neurosis wrought by male domination; and recent feminists have recognized that the oppression of women is traceable to a particular form of society...
...army troops support the government" and asked that his supporters remain "serene" while loyal military forces cleaned up the situation. That they did: about 12:30 p.m., the leaders of the rebellious army unit had surrendered, and the first coup attempted against the Western Hemisphere's only elected Marxist leader was over...
...enlarging its role as a major international supplier of weapons. Even more intriguing: the U.S. choice of prospective new markets for sophisticated equipment. Last week Secretary of State William P. Rogers announced that President Nixon had authorized the sale of F-5E supersonic jet fighters to Marxist Chile and four other South American countries. Earlier, the State Department had indicated American willingness to sell the prestigious F-4 Phantom jet fighter-bomber to Saudi Arabia, a heavy financial backer of the Palestinian liberation movement against Israel. The department also disclosed that negotiations were under way for the sale of other...