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When her asthmatic little boy Ernesto ("Che") Guevara grew up to be at 33 the Marxist mastermind of Fidel Castro's government in Havana, Celia de la Serna de Guevara was as proud as a mamma could be, particularly a Communist mamma. At home in Argentina, Celia has long been an all-wool Communist herself, but hampered by individualistic tendencies. She often ate with a pistol on the table, and, before she separated from Ernesto Sr.. sometimes used the weapon to threaten her husband, whose policies were only parlor pink. Somehow the leaders of Argentine Communism never...
...chieftains" still flows, and a group of MacAskival clansmen, who have made no "decadent concession to modern civilization." But by far the most fascinating character in the book is Logan's chief enemy, one Dr. Jackman, "the hypnotically evil man with the third eye," a kind of Marxist warlock...
...Historian Thomas finds an anomaly in the fact that Spain, so backward, should have been the first major battleground of 20th century ideologies. But there is no anomaly, any more than it was anomalous that Russia, also on the periphery of modern Europe, should have been the theater of Marxist revolution. Neither state-of dukes and campesinos, or grand dukes and muzhiks -had made any real step toward the compromise between feudal past and industrial present that other European nations had made in the centuries since the Renaissance. Spain, like Russia, was ungovernable. At the onset of Franco...
...young men of Africa are generally the labor leaders, he who controls Africa's trade unions today may well control the continent tomorrow. No one is more aware of this than Ghana's ambitious Kwame Nkrumah, who for months has been striving to export his own authoritarian Marxist-style unionism to all of Africa. But everywhere Nkrumah turns, he finds the same stubborn opponent, the West's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which has won affiliates in 22 African nations with the argument that the worker fares best under demo cratic unionism in a free society...
...they were tainted by association with "idealistic" ideologies. But Philosopher Schaff recognizes that "as long as people die, suffer, lose their loved ones, just so long will questions about the meaning of life have full rights." And, says he, Communist thinking is ill-prepared to deal with these questions. "Marxist philosophy should as quickly as possible and on as wide a scale as possible take up the problem of the human individual and his fate, previously neglected by it, though evoking such a broad response...