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...their marriage, they are intellectually self-conscious without being intellectually independent; they adhere to CP ideology in a manner which restricts their ability to live constructively' even though in their own eyes it is what saves them from being victims of U.S, capitalism. They place their hope in the Marxist ideal of classless society without possessing Marz`s Knowledge of how that ideal must take root in a specific historical content. They join with the religion of Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique of working class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American...
...also in denouncing Senator Joseph McCarthy. More conservative in recent years, he has been an outspoken critic of student radicals ("gravediggers of academic freedom") and of any quota system in academic appointments ("a manifestation of racism"). Says he: "I've always been out of step, a premature Marxist, a premature anti-Communist." His students best remember him as a teacher who, as one of them put it, "pounds, pounds, pounds away at us." Says another: "Sure, we have class discussions, but you really have to think before you speak or he'll knock you down in one second...
...merely an armed truce rather than a period of genuinely relaxed tensions. For those caught inside the East-bloc borders it will also be a period of repression and pretense. TIME'S Strobe Talbott talked to one East-bloc professor and author, who shrugged: "We have to chant Marxist-Leninist slogans because otherwise our leaders would get worried that the system that gives them their power is in danger. And if they begin to worry seriously that detente means an end to their own power, they'll never go ahead with all the treaties and agreements [with the West...
...rhetorical tone of the trip was set during Allende's stop in Mexico, where he was greeted by wildly enthusiastic crowds. "Yesterday in Mexico, today in Chile," the Marxist President told a special session of the Mexican Congress. "The bastard interests of the capitalists have tried to prevent us from being masters of our own destiny." Allende left little doubt that he was referring to the U.S., which he believes is trying to sabotage his government...
Many speakers at the Wednesday meeting stressed their desire to have the Department teach radical economics--which, in the Marxist tradition, considers the relation of social and political institutions and class structure to economic behavior--as an alternative approach to economics...