Word: marxist
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Steel Ahead. It was evident last week that Harold Wilson was certainly an odd sort of socialist, one able to beguile a French autocrat, a German burgher and a millionaire Texan. Actually Wilson is more Methodist than Marxist, and even if he wanted to nationalize everything in sight, he would be hard put to find many sizable industries that the British government does not already have a hand in. It is a fact of British life that after 13 years of Conservative rule, one of every four houses in the country is owned by public authorities, 90% of British students...
...these activities, including studies, took second place to politics. Young Pioneer meetings, discussions on politics and the Marxist classics, reports on current affairs by the Party secretary of the school, group readings of People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) editorials--these were frequent activities, and attendance was enforced by social pressure...
...Marxist-Historian...
...scientists gloomily. The industrial pollution of European and American waterways has gradually eliminated the big fish just about everywhere but in the Caspian. And every effort to encourage the sturgeon to breed in substitute man-made environments has met with total failure. The signers concluded with the questionably Marxist speculation that maybe a bit more electricity was hardly worth having no caviar to go with one's well-chilled vodka...
...leaders of Russia, sneered the Chinese, were "selling horse meat as beefsteak, displaying a lamb's head while actually selling fillet of dog." In Mao Tse-tung's somewhat mixed-up butcher-shop imagery, that meant that the Red meat of true Marxist-Leninism was still being supplanted by goulash a la Khrushchev...