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Next to Fidel Castro, the most visible man in Cuba long was Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 37, the Argentine-born Marxist who landed in 1956 with the original 81-man band of insurgents, quickly emerged as Castro's closest confidant and jack of all trouble (TIME cover, Aug. 8, 1960). Che was the brain behind Castro's hide-and-seek guerrilla tactics during the revolution; after the takeover, Castro made him Cuba's economic czar, first as head of the National bank and later as Minister of Industries, put him in charge of exporting Castroite subversion throughout Latin...
...French integristes (conservatives) deeply fear that the reforming spirit of the council could lead to an accommodation with Communism. "We encounter Marxist infiltration at every step in our Christian lives," warns conservative French Novelist Michel de Saint Pierre. Liberal Catholics, by contrast, are convinced that the church must be "on the march"; they are eager to revive the worker-priests and "carry on a dialogue" with Marxism...
...tension between these two viewpoints has led to a number of demonstrations and a noisily public war of words. In Paris last December, Dominican Yves Congar, one of France's leading theologians, was hounded at a lecture by young integristes yelling "Go to Moscow, Marxist priest!" In some parts of France, conservatives objected so strongly to the introduction of the vernacular in the Mass that they responded in Latin when the priest addressed the congregation in French...
...loose from the tentacles of Soviet planning and made a test case. The test was the first application to heavy industry in Russia of Professor Evsei Liberman's Western-style theories of profit guidelines and greater autonomy for factory managers-theories that are already proving their superiority over Marxist regimentation in the Soviet consumer-goods sector (TIME cover...
...student radicals seem to perceive any conflict between their underlying existential philosophies and their Marxist sympathies. There is certainly a strong psychological link between the two. Anyone drawn to the uncompromising individualism of existentialism with its rejection of a priori moral authority is likely to have an opposing urge to commit himself entirely to authority. That is a commonplace in psychology, but it is often forgotten by those who notice the intellectual inconsistency between the two positions. Sartre easily fits the existentialist-Marxist pattern of deep ambivalence to authority, if the childhood he describes in The Words is any indication...