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...already well under way, and it is producing surprising and in many cases familiar trends. Everywhere along the radical circuit the same refrains are echoed: "We're getting our heads straight"; "We're getting our stuff together"; "We're getting into radical theory." Organizational work is approaching orgiastic proportions: Marxist groups, Maoist groups, Trotskyite groups, socialist groups and plain old American-style Communist groups are all flourishing. Old Left intellectualism has been reborn, mainly in the form of the Young Socialist Alliance, with thanks to a helping hand from J. Edgar Hoover, who labeled the 5,000-member Y.S.A...
There is, moreover, a realization that what a Marxist would call the "objective conditions" required to achieve revolution in its classic sense simply do not exist in America. This conviction partly explains the movement's new directions. The radical organizers are persuading themselves and their fragmented followers that their "revolution," regardless of past confusions, requires steady heads, hard work and an end to the anti-intellectual dilettantism. As its best leaders know, the movement's only hope lies not in armed struggle but in concerted political and economic action...
...becomes apparent that the book works on both a symbolical-fantasy level and a representational one, a tension that recalls the effects of Jerzy Kozinski's vignettes in Steps. In what appears to be part of his "real world," Randy is absorbed momentarily by Progressive Labor, adopts a stringent Marxist line and announces that "whoever isn't a Marxist eats shit." The infusion of colloquial language lends a very real resonance to the book. Randy, finding the first few pages of Capital almost incomprehensible, suddenly becomes a coprophiliac. At this point, Author Innis begins to pull even this reality...
...Comintern that Italy had all the "required conditions to guarantee the victory of the great proletarian revolution." Lenin, in fact, saw not only Italy but much of Western Europe as ripe ground for Communism, thanks to its broad base of industrial workers. Today there are Communist or Marxist regimes in all of Eastern Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and even in the Caribbean and South America-but not one where Lenin dreamed that his ideology would triumph first. Only in three Western European countries, in fact, does Communism constitute a major force (see chart). The big three...
...change of heart at a Russian-Yugoslav soccer match in 1946. He noticed that whenever the referee was not looking, the Soviet players kicked the Yugoslavs in the stomach. Even so, he tried to persuade himself that this bit of foul play was somehow part of a grand Marxist scheme that he was not capable of grasping. "The conflict between the new Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union," he recalls, "was fraught with a strange kind of fire, like the disputes between medieval Christian sects...