Word: marxist
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...sled by the Social-Democrats and the Socialist-Revolutionaries and their allies, had broken out. Most of the leading Bolsheviks were still on their way to Petrograd from places of exile. In their absence Molotov, one of the editors of Pravda, gave out Bolshevik policy: Demand the complete Marxist program forthwith. When the big Bolsheviks arrived, they pooh-poohed the youthful (27) Molotov's naive and uncompromising view. But when Lenin stepped out of his railroad car in the Finland Station, having been transported through Germany in a sealed car, it was seen that Molotov had been right: Lenin...
...many of the few dozen Bolsheviks agreed with their leader's violent policy. Said leading Marxist Scholar Plekhanov: "Raving madness." But because Lenin's "April Theses"-put into effect the following October in the Bolshevik coup d'etat -had stood the bitter test of 40 years, Vyacheslav Molotov was claiming, at long last, his right to share Lenin's fame...
...have to pay out about 16 billion rubles; next year, 18 billion; and in 1967 we would have to pay about 25 billion, or almost as much as the subscriptions to the loan envisaged for the current year. This is a vicious circle." Khrushchev's solution was as Marxist as the circle itself: wipe out the loan and postpone paying back previous loans for 25 years, during which loan holders would get no interest...
...Communist study group at Columbia University in 1938, when he was 28. Later, the record showed, he had held office in the pro-Communist American Friends of the Chinese People; once in 1942 he flashed his diplomatic credentials before an FBI agent to try to rescue some Marxist documents in the possession of a left-wing Japanese professor seized for repatriation. This background became the business of U.S. security agencies when Norman served briefly in 1945 as a counter-intelligence officer on the staff of General MacArthur in Tokyo...
...unofficial Pope of the Hungarian Reformed Church." Called upon in 1948 by that church for advice in its relations with the Communist regime, Barth encouraged collaboration with the Reds, and urged the church not to let opposition to the Communists guide its affairs. Niebuhr concedes that Barth is no Marxist and grants that in East Germany Barth's "eschatological emphasis has inspired a kind of religious resistance which has permitted the East German Christians to bear witness to their faith." But why has Barth not confessed that he was wrong about Hungary, when even "the godless Existentialist Jean Paul...