Word: marxist
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...TEMPTING-and far too easy-to judge Brecht by political criteria, to praise or condemn him for his Marxist perspective. Brecht himself encouraged political judgements of his work, viewing his plays as vehicles for his repudiation of the bourgeois lifestyle. He writes of his first play, "Baal is a play which could present all kinds of difficulties to those who have not learned to think dialectically." Likewise, he repudiates the popular success of Drums in the Night because he felt that it was based on a bourgeois misunderstanding of his purpose: "... the people who were so wildly anxious to shake...
...anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of the Russia of that day, that the Soviet leaders had no intention of attempting to advance their cause by launching military attacks with their own armed forces across frontiers." Such a procedure, he argued, "fitted neither with the requirements of the Marxist doctrine, nor with Russia's own urgent need for recovery from the devastations of a long and exhausting war, nor with what was known about the temperament of the Soviet dictator himself." The real "threat," according to Kennan, was the threat of revolution, particularly in Europe. Mutatis Mutandis, both Kennan...
...WASHINGTON, D. C.: Will recontact WF 1577-S and determine the precise reasons that this source stated Subject "is an inveterate Marxist revolutionist" ... "is far out" ... and "should be watched...
Referenced WFO letter states Subject is believed attending the University of California at Berkeley, and is known to be an inveterate Marxist revolutionist, and a type of a person that should be watched as she will probably be very active in revolutionary activities...
...return for this, what they have been doing at home, aside from selling out, and actually here we can take the crudest Marxist interpretation and do very well, provided that we don't talk about some Greek bourgeoisie-better talk about foreign capital. It's really an exercise in modern imperialism. Greece is a beautiful example of what neo-imperialism does. It's a crude story, so crude that you don't have to be too well-read to understand. The reading is there...