Word: marxist
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Though the two Communist powers now seldom indulge in public name-calling, thinly disguised ideological salvos still break the sullen silence. Recently Chinese dialecticians disinterred an ancient Marxist villain, Karl Kautsky, Austrian contemporary of Karl Marx, who was a moderate and Social Democrat-among the worst epithets in the Communist lexicon...
...name wherever Kautsky's was mentioned. "Kautsky robs Marxism of its revolutionary, living spirit," charged the Chinese. "He is a hidden opportunist. He does not preach revolution, does not carry on the wholehearted revolutionary struggle, and in order to avoid such a struggle resorts to the tritest, ultra-Marxist-sounding excuses." On a less rarefied plane, the widening split between China and Russia is also much in evidence. Diplomatically, Russia is actively engaged in containing China's expansionist policies and undermining its influence with Asian Communist parties...
...other side, William J. Reid, head of the history department at Boston's Dorchester High School, says flatly: "I don't think any high school youngsters know enough history to refute Marxist arguments. For most people, you have to say that this is wrong and it doesn't work, and cite examples from history to prove it." The seminars taught in Louisiana schools are charged by the state board of education with "exposing the deceitful character and dangers of the international Communist conspiracy," and "outlining the superior characteristics and advantages of a free economy as compared with...
...plazas. Peru's 2,222,926 registered voters submitted themselves to the most elaborate anti-fraud safeguards in the country's history and then cast their votes for a new President from among three leading candidates: Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 67, founder of the longoutlawed, Marxist-turned-moderate APRA Party; Fernando Belaunde Terry, 49, a wellborn, highly nationalistic architect who narrowly lost the 1956 presidential elections; and Manuel Odria, 64, Dictator-President of Peru from 1950 to 1956, who is remembered for both his strong arm and liberal public works...
...Favor of Jesting. Even in Poland, Marxist writers tolerate other opinions and even incorporate them into their own works. A young philosophy professor, Leszek Kolakowski, who was once a dedicated Stalinist, now talks more like a democrat. The leader of the 1956 intellectuals' revolt, he was singled out for attack by Gomulka for carrying "revisionism" too far, though he is still allowed to teach at the University of Warsaw. In his essay, The Priest and the Jester, Kolakowski compares a philosophy of absolutes to the priest in history, a philosophy of skepticism to the jester. Between them there...