Word: marxist
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...Governor in 1926 and 1930. He switched to the Democrats and won their nomination for Governor in the 1934 primary by 436,000 votes. His EPIC platform-End Poverty in California-was probably as radical as that of any major party in U.S. history: applying Marxist theory, he proposed to turn over to the workers some of the means of production-in this case, California's Depression-idled farms and factories. Led by the Los Angeles Times, his alarmed opposition charged that Sinclair planned to Sovietize the state and nationalize children. Despite the scare campaign against him, he came...
...traditional radical approach to this situation is the Marxist one of plumping for the aim of mobilizing these workers to overwhelm the power of the Rich by sheer weight of numbers. This was to be done by explaining to the workers that their interests were not being looked after in the prevailing state of affairs, which realization supposedly would so enrage the working class that they would do something about redressing the situation...
Ultimately, of course, this strategy depends, just as inevitably as the Marxist, on the third means of acquiring power, that of Numbers, since the other means are not permissible. Thus one has to wait until enough people have been converted to the new faith which means a long wait...
...Soviet anthology of spy stories contains a stirring Abel call for KGB recruits. "The best representatives of our youth are going into intelligence work that requires the creative acquisition of the Marxist-Leninist theory, a general educational background and a broad spiritual outlook." That might seem questionable to Russians who witnessed the demonstration against the Czechoslovak invasion in Red Square last August, when a gang of young KGB operatives brutally mauled the demonstrators...
...community so conservative that its newsstands refused to sell copies of LIFE and Look when they carried features on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution last fall. Some students confronted Johns at a convocation last spring, charged that he and many of the new teachers were promoting Marxist philosophy and inciting opposition to the Viet Nam war. One undergraduate group began a drive to impeach...