Word: marxist
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...restore financial stability and provide jobs for his people, who were largely illiterate (illiteracy has dropped from 57% to 27% in three years) and mostly poor. No leader is under fiercer attack by the Communists and Castroites, who have apparently chosen Venezuela as the most promising spot for the Marxist takeover in Latin America...
Ilyichev's fears are well grounded. A consolidated community of 170 million people in Western Europe, with their huge joint productive capacity, brings Russia a formidable new economic competitor. More important, a thriving, cooperating Europe dramatically belies the Marxist belief that capitalist nations will destroy one another and leave their workers in rags as Communism sweeps over the world. Actually, industrial production in the Common Market's six nations is up 37% in five years; after a brief lull, orders are pouring into steel factories and other heavy industries. Most of Western Europe's workers enjoy...
...large part, Soviet Russia is a monument to Karl Marx. It was Marx's Communist Manifesto, written with Frederick Engels in 1848, that became the blueprint for the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Marxist doctrine still guides Russia today. From Lenin to Khrushchev, Russia's Communist leaders have placed the full-bearded German Jew high on the honor roll of their country's heroes. But no man is less deserving of that dubious distinction-an irony of history recalled this week with publication of a slender book, Marx vs. Russia (Frederick Ungar Publishing...
...grey and, for a Latin capital, uncharacteristically quiet. No visitor can fail to note the soot-smudged dinginess of the Habana Riviera and the Habana Libre, once the city's flossiest hotels. Silent knots of Iron Curtain technicians, gun-toting militiamen, and bewildered peasants brought to Havana for Marxist orientation have replaced the thronging tourists who once filled their lobbies. Nightclubs like the Tropicana-still ballyhooed as the world's biggest-continue to operate, but with a Cuba socialista beat, and the leggy pony chorus now does Russian folk dances. The great restaurants have two choices...
Nonetheless, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, a middle-class intellectual who was generally considered No. 2 to Roca in the party, went into the hills to make contact with Castro's revolutionaries. Fidel already had a woolly-minded vision of himself as a Marxist messiah, and he apparently believed that the professional Communists had something to offer his revolution. When Castro came down from the hills to Havana in January 1959. Rodriguez came too, proudly sporting the rebel beard he still wears. Once more the Communists, in their search for power, had found someone to hang onto...