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...direction of U.S. foreign policy was illustrated by the Administration's success in separating Viet Nam from America's relationships with China and the Soviet Union. Both nations agreed to proceed with the Nixon summit meetings because they were more concerned about their own national interests than with Marxist orthodoxies. In future dealings with the two Communist superpowers, the U.S. must adroitly avoid giving the impression that it is aiding one at the expense of the other; tricky as this balancing act might sometimes become, it will afford the U.S. far more leverage than it had when Peking remained...
...Some Democrats can support some of these demands; the program is directed to the mass of the American people," Powers said. "But if the program were implemented, it would have to mean a social revolution." As a Marxist-Leninist party, the SWP hopes to lead the revolution it is sure is coming...
...most important films of the past decade have been the political works of Godard and Rocha, even though these guys are in the baby league as far as politicians go. For my money, the best political film ever made is called Salvatore Giuliano, and was made by an Italian Marxist. Francesco Rosi, in 1962. He was one of the first of his countrymen to reveal the linkages of local corruption in any hardnosed way, while debunking Sicilian outlaw mythology. Rosi shows what really happened to the legendary Guihano after World War II, when he was paid by the Mafia...
Doris Lessing herself has gone the route from Marxist materialism to Sufi mysticism. The parallel with Orkney is quietly apparent. So is the meaning: that the beliefs one holds at various times are not always as important as the journey to and from them...
Below the surface issues the contest has an emotional, ideological edge -Barzel blames Brandt's Social Democrats for "permissiveness" and points with well-rehearsed alarm at neo-Marxist members of Jusos (for Jungsozialisten), the under-35 wing of Brandt's party. The Jusos have swung so far left that the Chancellor himself recently admonished them for "polemics against the majority opinion of the party...