Word: marxist
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...incessant cigarette smoker and dedicated billiards player, aloof, handsome U Ba Swe is a tougher, less gracious man than U Nu. Unlike his predecessor, he avoids unnecessary contact with Westerners and, while arguing that "there is a sea of difference between being a Marxist and being a Communist," flatly calls himself...
...joined the Bolshevik Party and got an intense, if defective, party education. On his untrammeled peasant mind Marxist-Leninist theory had the power of revelation. He took the Stalinist line and stuck to it. T hus he became one of the realists of Communism, an undeviating supporter of power-in-being. With his bull-like energy, ready grasp of slogans, he was soon shouldering his way through the party ranks...
...rotation cost the country in one season as much grain as would have been produced by 6,000,000 acres. He refused to introduce hybrid corn, the most spectacular practical achievement of Western plant genetics. The blight of Lysenkoism even touched far-distant sciences, including chemistry and physics, where Marxist dogmatists denounced useful and well-proved principles as tainted with Western error...
...curriculum at this level of education is rigidly prescribed. While free to specialize in whatever field he desires, the student is very limited within that particular field. All must take a Marxist or Leninist course each year, although they are "bored with it," according to Malia...
...Socialist Workers' Party advocates peaceful following of the Marxist program. It broke away from the Russian Communists and the Stalinists...