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...Marxist Metternich. Still vigorous at 79, Tito comes to the U.S. from a couple of the world's most sensitive spots: India and Egypt, two countries that recently signed treaties of friendship with the Soviet Union, despite their professed allegiance to Tito's policy of nonalignment. In some respects a sort of Marxist Metternich, the Yugoslav President has done a shrewd balancing act between the major powers with which Belgrade must deal. Recognizing that a triangular rivalry was inevitable among the U.S., the Soviet Union and China, he has tried to work himself into a livable relationship with...
Among dissident Soviet intellectuals, the man who best embodies the spirit of loyal opposition to the Kremlin is Roy Medvedev, 46, an educator-turned-historian and a dedicated Marxist-Leninist. Last month a London publisher brought out a Russian-language edition of Who Is Mad? (to be published in the U.S. on Dec. 1 by Alfred A. Knopf under the title A Question of Madness), co-authored by Roy and his twin brother Zhores. a prominent biologist. It describes Zhores' 19-day confinement in a madhouse for his political behavior, and Roy's ultimately successful efforts...
DECAMERON Pier Paolo Pasolini, an avowed Marxist who makes pallid films of Christianity (The Gospel According to St. Matthew; Theorem), has taken on more than he can eschew. Using ten of Boccaccio's tales, Pasolini twits the church by showing lascivious nuns, self-mocking ghosts, corrupt priests and finally the trials of the painter Giotto, played by Pasolini himself. Giotto was a cornerstone of Renaissance painting; Pasolini plays him as an interior decorator. Boccaccio was famous for his ribaldry; Pasolini is notorious for his vapidity. To adapt the Decameron successfully, a film maker must come to his senses...
WHEN Salvador Allende Gossens was elected President of Chile last year, some nervous Americans with investments there reassured themselves that, although Allende was a Marxist, he had always maintained a healthy respect for the due process of law. That assessment has proved correct, if a bit too sanguine. While giving conscientious attention to democracy and legality, Allende has nonetheless been expropriating American holdings almost as fast as he can. In July, he announced the nationalization of the mining interests of Anaconda, Kennecott and Cerro-but only after a constitutional amendment permitting the takeover had been duly introduced, debated and passed...
Whatever Swanson's faults may be, inconsistency is not one of them. To match his imaginative (if not factual) diagnosis, he includes a suitable cure. What the workers require is more "militant class consciousness." Whatever he means by this Marxist jargon is not explicitly stated, but it indicates that he is as ignorant of the conditions of working people in socialist countries as he is of them in his own. For the Russian worker, certainly the most militantly class conscious of all, is denied the very right to strike. And surely even Swanson knows something about his living conditions. Lawrence...