Word: marxist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wake of East Berlin's 1953 bread riots, the Communist regime scolded the people for having forfeited the government's confidence and demanded that they work twice as hard to atone. Marxist Dramatist Bertolt Brecht offered a classic rejoinder. Instead of trying to rehabilitate such people, asked Brecht sarcastically, "wouldn't it be simpler for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?" It remained for Czechoslovakia, nearly two decades later, to take Brecht at his word...
...Zionists could not take seriously the half-million Palestinian Arabs who were viewed merely as a harassment in Eden. Arab attacks, which began as early as 1886, were customarily described as "banditry." The Arabs were devoid of "an economic and cultural character of their own," pronounced Ber Borochov, the Marxist Zionist. Israel, Elon concludes, is still paying the enormous price for assuming that Arabs had no dream of their own. "The punishment of the Arabs for the sins of Europe," Elon argues, will "burden the conscience of Israelis for a long time to come...
These books raise significant questions: What was the relationship of Castro's non-communist July 26th Movement to the Socialist Party, PSP, and why was the Marxist orthodoxy in a back-seat position? Because Cuba's soil is so fertile, the island must have faced serious economic difficulty to make rationing a continuous part of revolutionary existence there. One must also examine present Russo-Cuban relations and its connections with the Cuban's attempt to export their revolution to Latin America...
...chosen to fight the drift toward separatism by raising the specter of Soviet troublemaking. But there is no doubt that the Soviets would like to see Yugoslavia disintegrate. If Tito manages to arrange a genuine succession, he will have made another great stride toward achieving a reasonably democratic Marxist society. If he fails, Yugoslavia could splinter under the weight of separatist feeling and Soviet meddling...
...have given the world a lesson," Salvador Allende Gossens declared jubilantly last week. Five months ago Allende became the world's first Marxist head of state to win office through a free election. Last week, in nationwide municipal contests, he won a bigger share of the vote and a fair-sized endorsement of his policies...