Word: marxist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Party Hacks. Like Khrushchev and his successors, Czechoslovakia's young Communist technocrats led by Economics Professor Ota Sik, 45, are apparently more concerned with increasing production than with Marxist dogma. But while the reformers have sold their economic approach to the party's Central Committee, they have not been able to bring about a change in the regime's power structure...
...exhibitors are offering everything from an aircraft instrument landing system to a diesel electric locomotive. Doing business with Peking can be both sweet and sour. Japanese businessmen, no amateurs themselves, describe Mao's Marxist idealists as ruthless bargainers. Moreover, the Reds begin every session with an infuriating propaganda speech, and cannot meet at all on Wednesdays and Saturdays, when they do their own indoctrinal homework...
...also pushing for more decision making by plant managers instead of central planners, has been successful enough to announce that his ideas "will be extended next year over the whole of Soviet light industry." But his voice is only one in a rising chorus of criticism directed at classic Marxist economics. Lately Pravda and other Soviet publications have carried articles by economists branding the Soviet system "obsolete" and advocating a more or less free market system. Sergei Afanasyev, a deputy premier of one of the Soviet republics, fortnight ago came out for "material stimuli" as a necessary mainspring...
Marxism." By any name, it is spreading through the Soviet orbit and causing considerable ferment. Czech economists have openly attacked the Marxist economic system, and Czech President Antonin Novotny recently stressed the necessity of "material incentives" for the workers. Even more important for its potential effect on the Communist world, the new way of thinking has given encouragement to the long-suffering consumers of the Soviet bloc, who have begun to sound off loudly about the inefficiencies of a system that provides them with so few comforts...
Such talk has a strong appeal for the underprivileged-and also for Latin America's deeply religious women, rich or poor. In Chile, it was the women who gave Frei his large majority. He broke about even with Marxist Salvador Allende for the men's vote; the women (who use separate ballot boxes in Chile) gave him almost 63% of their vote. Frei's own sister Irene, 46, was one of the country's most popular political figures until her death in an auto accident five weeks ago. In Santiago municipal elections last year, she herself...