Word: marxist
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...very surprising, not to say disheartening, to see an imitation New Wave film coming out of the state film institute of a Communist country. True, it's evidence that Cuba's cultural and ideological policies aren't Stalinist- Memories, far from being Marxist, is a movie made about a bourgeois consciousness by bourgeois consciusnesses for bourgeois consciousnesses. So one could try to explain it as an attempt to help the bourgeoisie understand socialist Cuba, or vice versa. But there it certainly fails...
...useless memory-laden objects-his wife's dresses, his own collection of sculpture and painting, the very size of his rooms. These keep him from understanding his life: they keep him thinking about surplus value subjectively and purely in itself, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said in a drunken Marxist moment...
...Quebec Liberation Front seized two hostages, murdering one of them. In other areas, Russia resumed a dismaying assault on its restive intellectuals, with the Soviet press damning Nobel Prizewinner Alexander Solzhenitsyn who continued his lonely battle against tyranny. Chile's Salvador Allende became Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president. China seemed to have recovered from the violence of the Cultural Revolution. For the first time a majority of the U.N. General Assembly voted to admit the Peking government. It was not the required two-thirds majority, but nevertheless indicated that the mainland cannot be excluded much longer...
...breed. Emilia-Romagna is one of 15 Italian regions that last June elected semiautonomous governments under a nationwide decentralization program -and the only one in which the Communists and their allies won a majority. Rather than use their new-found power to try to cast the region along orthodox Marxist lines, the Emilia-Romagna Communists-who have been the dominant political force in the so-called "red belt" of central Italy since World War II-have chosen instead to make it a showcase for good government. Keeping a very low profile indeed, the Communists seem shrewdly determined to prove that...
People's Pollock. Probably the best exponent of Italy's low-profile brand of Communism is Bologna's Mayor Renato Zangheri, a party "liberal," economist and intellectual who is regarded as something of a Marxist Medici even by nonCommunists. Since July, when he became the latest Red mayor of Bologna, Zangheri has insisted on keeping his University of Bologna professorship, on wearing his academic tweeds, and on making over much of the municipal government in his eclectic but thoughtful style. Among the 17th century frescoes in the Palazzo D'Accursio, he has hung a favorite Jackson...