Word: marxist
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...opinion, TIME missed the point about Bertolt Brecht. The U.S. Congress and American journalism regarded him as both stubborn and Marxist. But he wasn't. In his lifelong search for a politico-economic system that would not suppress but enlighten human goodness, he became disenchanted with Marxism, as he had earlier become disenchanted with the capitalism of his day. Brecht's view of mankind was optimistic. His search sprang from a comparison of the goodness of man with the badness of man's economic and political systems. His drama demands that we think about the "existence problem...
Near the speaker's stand in Georgetown's Queen Elizabeth Park, Negro Prime Minister Forbes Burnham threw both arms around his bitterest enemy, the Marxist ex-Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. Moments later, the lights dimmed, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny...
...hours of class' room study. The curriculum is one which might well strike an American gym teacher as impossible if not insane. The students are required to take the following courses: the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the philosophy of Marx and Lenin; Marxist political economy; the fundamentals of scientific Communism; a foreign language; biochemistry; anatomy, including the dissection of cadavers; the history of pedagogics; the theory of physical culture; the organization of physical culture; and how to run a motion picture projector. After graduation, these young men and women will teach athletics in sports...
...encounter signaled a distinct détente between the Catholic and Communist worlds. Even five years ago, a meeting between a Pope and a Soviet foreign minister would have been unthinkable; now Gromyko and Paul were earnestly discussing peace and the dangers in Southeast Asia. After the audience, the Marxist carried away a gold medal commemorating the Ecumenical Council. But no pictures were taken to commemorate the meeting. The Vatican considers Gromyko too controversial to be seen with His Holiness...
Ideologically, the Buddhists oppose the National Liberation Front, with its predominantly Marxist beliefs. But the Buddhists have given aid to the NLF because it represents the people's armed revolt against foreigners. When peace finally comes, they intend to replace the NLF and become the pacifying agents...