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...many ways Julius Hobson is an anomaly among civil rights activists. He did not come out of the church, the poverty program, labor or politics. He has a reputation for being abrasive, even to those who side with him. He is an avowed Marxist and atheist in Washington, D.C., which he describes as a "Baptist, Methodist town." In the mid-'60s he was kicked out of the Congress of Racial Equality because he did not believe in its nonviolent strategy. He has frequently acted alone, and once admitted to friends that he could hold all of his meetings...
...American letters Susan Sontag made this first film in 1970. At the time of its Cambridge premiere, a Crimson review which Sontag thought nearly definitive described the work as an attack on bourgeois notions of culture and society through the manipulation of film narrative cliches and excepted audience . The Marxist author of that review found the film exciting others didn...
...housing shortage, Poles are now being encouraged to invest their savings in construction cooperatives or even to build their own houses. "I am a true capitalist," said the president of a cooperative near Warsaw. "I am helping these men to create wealth." But does not home ownership violate Marxist dogma on the accumulation of private wealth? "We solved that problem," declared the deputy head of Poland's Housing Authority. "We now consider housing to be personal property like books or clothing. Marx had nothing against that type of possession...
Ostensibly, Chile was in the midst of its worst political crisis since Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens came to power two years ago. Fully 20 of Chile's 25 provinces were under a government-proclaimed "state of emergency," and Santiago's streets were patrolled by the army. No fewer than 21 associations of small businessmen, teachers and professionals were in the fourth week of a strike that already has cost Chile's shaky economy more than $100 million in lost revenue. In response to the crisis, all 15 of Allende's Cabinet ministers resigned last week...
...compensation if the expropriating country is of a mind to pay; if not, executives of most companies have simply written off the value of their seized assets. Kennecott Copper Corp., however, has come up with a third strategy to recover the losses it sustained when the Chilean government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens last year seized its El Teniente mine, near Santiago. In a move of significance to all multinationals operating in mineral-rich but money-poor countries, the company is trying to throw up what amounts to an international legal blockade of Chile's copper shipments...