Word: marxist
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...Marxist renaissance is a peculiar phenomenon. By any empirical standard, Marx's major prophecies-such as Communism's triumph over capitalism or the outbreak in industrialized societies of the workers' revolution-have proved false. No economy based on his teachings has approached the efficiency of a free-market system, and governments that tried to enforce his Utopian views have been compelled to rely on totalitarian methods. Nonetheless, Europe's expanding middle class is discovering to its horror that its sons and daughters are increasingly hostile to industry, "the System" and even to the established left...
Patron Saint. Students pack lectures on Marxist philosophy, political science, sociology and economics-not only at such well-known leftist strongholds as West Berlin's Free University and the "Red" French universities of Nanterre and Vincennes but also at Catholic institutions like Belgium's Louvain or Nijmegen in Holland. Publishers have found a vigorous market for works by and about a variety of Marxists: not only such dogmatic mainstream interpreters as Lenin and Mao, but a host of differing theoreticians, ranging from Leon Trotsky to former Czechoslovak Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek, who was toppled...
...Rudi" Dutschke, who led West Berlin's student rebellion in 1968 and is still active in the Movement, calls "the long march through the institutions." The archetype of the new, sober, methodical and coolly professional radical is Wolfgang Roth, 32, the ambitious, mod-haired leader of the openly Marxist Jusos (Young Socialists), who have virtually seized from within the left wing of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party (TIME, April 23). Instead of only taking to the streets, French Maoists are now working on assembly lines, the better to be able to recruit workers for the revolution...
...fact, the radical superstars of the 1960s are passé, along with their Marxist models: Castro, Che and increasingly, Mao Tse-tung. The new radicals, says Parisian Journalist Robert Pledge, who was a student activist in 1968, "have abandoned the idea of the political hero." Instead, they are promoting a more pragmatic, down-to-earth "Marxism with a human face...
State of Siege maintains a consistently independent Marxist analysis of the political problems of Latin America. When the right-wing members of the Parliament accuse the parliamentary left of being Russian apologists, the leftist Deputy Fabbri answers that the Russians may well be as bad as the Americans, but that the Russians "are far away, the Americans everywhere." Not making a sweeping endorsement of anti-Americanism in any guise, State of Siege sticks to the situation at hand and draws its conclusions from the specific issue...