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...Scandinavia, with its costly welfarism, seems to have pulled out of the market for radical solutions, at least temporarily. Britain, for its part, still seems content to be the country in which Marx is buried. Cambridge University's debating society next fall will discuss "Is Marxism Dead?" The Marxist resurrection seems to be confined mainly to Western Europe's three most populous states...
...Party, West Germany seems to be the target of the most concerted new radical assault. The country crawls with left-wing organizations. In addition to Roth's Jusos, there is the small West German Communist Party, which with funds channeled from East Germany has spawned 130 other orthodox Marxist groups across the country. Out on the extreme-left edge of the West German political scene are another 260 assorted groups, including such outfits as Red Dawn and Red Flag, which specialize in tearing up German institutions with troublemakers known as chaoten...
...Marxists control student councils and sometimes even the administrations in all but a handful of the country's 67 universities and technical institutes, which have a combined enrollment of 670,000. Says a West Berlin professor: "If you are not a Marxist professor, you don't get the students. The organizations see to that...
ITALY. The new Italian Marxists draw their strength from a group of some 200 far-left organizations known collectively as "the extraparliamentary left," from the 14 universities (out of a total of 43) in which they wield major influence, and such cultural crannies as the Italian artistic community, which is almost totally Marxist. Still, they have not made much headway against the Italian Communist Party, which has a membership of 1,500,000 and won 27% of the vote in last year's election. The party has chosen to march to real power by proving itself effective and responsible...
FRANCE. Like their West German cousins, France's young Marxists have decided that they were "too ideological, intellectual and elitist" back in 1968. The French far left-ten main groups, with a total membership of no more than 30,000-is much smaller than the German movement. But it has achieved striking success in mining pockets of discontent that have been neglected by both the Gaullist regime and the establishment left. A variety of Marxist fronts-Trotskyites, Jean-Claude Navatte's Marxist-evangelist Christian Student Youth organization-helped transform hundreds of France's often-bored secondary-school...