Word: marxist
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...Marxist organization with a national membership of 10,000, ran only one candidate for City Council in the 1969 elections. City Council elections are held every two years and candidates are elected by proportional representation...
Leonard B. Boudin, visiting professor of Law, argued the case on behalf of Mandel-a noted Marxist economist-and eight other plaintiffs. Defendants in the case were Attorney General John M. Mitchell and Secretary of State William P. Rogers...
Rocha explores these essential contradictions, which come closer to treating the surfaces of material life than any of those explored by Marxist-intellectuals in the oppressor culture. He stands at the center, the crossroads of neo-colonialist contradictions, and in Terra em Transe (Land in Angitish) he approaches them dialectically, attempting a mediation between Brazil's political realities and the poetic violence, the spiritual energies of an oppressed people. There are both concrete and at the same time surreal situations, like all the other sounds and images of the film. The hero Paulo Martins embodies all of the central dialectical...
...which each element-each character, myth, power-figure-comes into conflict with other elements, leaving nothing to exist as a pure entity (like each image in a montage style), nothing to operate outside of a natural dialectical context. Rocha sees this kind of context as a constant, being a Marxist, and portrays no character without a dual, self-contradictory, internally dialectical nature. Diaz, for example, is continually marching around carrying the black flag of the labor movement in one hand and a crucifix in the other. Martins tells his story, alternating extreme long-shots for a bare objectivity with...
...street-barricade species of political activism. One hundred years have passed since the Paris Commune was crushed; the event, a coarse bloom of indigenous French socialism, has been the horror of the bourgeoisie because of its bloodshed and its affronts to property and the delight of the Marxists for reasons roughly similar. Marxists do not relish violence per se, but there is no denying that French history furnishes the most spectacular, the most theatrical examples of bourgeois squalor and proletarian idealism, tailored along lines which, since they are the stuff of history, cannot be mimicking a Marxist schema, even when...