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...post-industrial powers grappling with the problems of advanced technology. According to the convergence theory, Moscow and Washington should meet some day at the omega point somewhere on the outskirts of Belgrade, the capital of a nation that has-so far, successfully -introduced elements of capitalism into a doctrinally Marxist society...
Kapitsa's approval of the Sakharov thesis was a trifle ambiguous, and with good reason: convergence is regarded by Soviet ideologues as a major heresy. In essence, the theory is a variation on a Marxist theme-namely, that economic developments govern political and social evolution. But it challenges the conviction of Soviet orthodoxy that Communism alone is the road to human development. After publication of his essay in the West, Sakharov was dismissed as chief consultant to the state committee for nuclear energy, and hardly a month goes by without a denunciation of convergence appearing in the Soviet press...
...destiny, to its logic, by taking a stand on political questions. It would mean the beginning of complete politicization of our organization and of all spheres of life, and this is the hallmark of totalitarianism." After two hours of shouting, the philosophers passed a compromise resolution that omitted the Marxist critique of U.S. policy, but went along with the radical demand for an immediate pullout of U.S. forces in Viet...
...Declaration of Independence and to the paradigmatic role of George Washington in its own formative rhetoric and constitutional documents. Hanoi's ever more frequent direct appeals to a portion of the American people over the heads of our highly elected officials is grounded partly, of course, in their Marxist reading and no doubt misreading of what they construe as the class basis of our protest movement but partly also in their residual admiration for part of America. This is an admiration, first of all, for that part of America which through President Wilson called for the acceptance...
Moltmann took his initial cue and much of his underlying philosophy from a highly unorthodox source: Marxist Philosopher Ernst Bloch.* Bloch is an atheist who nonetheless believes that man's hope for the future is the only transcendence in the universe: "Where there is hope, there is religion." Moreover, says Bloch, a hopeful future came into the world with the Bible...