Word: marxist
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...imagine Fidel Castro there one day sometime in 1995. He is wrestling with complex, politically dangerous solutions to the crushing failure of his Marxist economy, but at last his nation is beginning to emerge, inch by painful inch, from the darkest years of the "special period," when the world predicted that his country and his government would collapse, just as did that of the Soviet Union. He decides one salve to the trauma is to go ahead with an idea that has intrigued him for some time: a visit by Pope John Paul...
...group of Tibetan officials if this one will be the last Dalai Lama, they all say anxiously, "No, no.") And even relatives have sometimes found it hard to countenance his policy of forgiving the Chinese (he once described Mao as "remarkable," has referred to himself as "half Marxist, half Buddhist," and has stepped back from his original demands of independence to calling only for an autonomous "Zone of Peace"). The pressure on him to forswear his policy of nonviolence has intensified as the years go by, and Chinese repression comes ever closer to rendering Tibet extinct...
...banned for twelve years by the Russians, Holub has a vested interest in combating ideology wherever he finds it. His wariness of contemporary humanistic academia is more understandable in this context. Under the Communists, the aesthetics of "socialist realism" forced history, literature and art into the service of Marxist ideology. For Holub, scientific research provided the only hope of objectivity in a world of Communist lies, fabrications and distortions...
...charisma did not lay claim to the reverence garnered from their fans, the power must have partially come from the sounds emanating from the group's cache of analog relics and digital gadgets barricading their stage. Undoubtedly, more than just francophiles delight in Sadier's irresistible French lyrics and Marxist banter. Backed in part by Australian-born Mary Hansen, Sadier's voice wafted ethereally between the electronic imagery...
...other thing." China is on the right side of history on many things, he said, but on this the Chinese government "is on the wrong side of history." Clinton had used the same words in private the night before, and they were a searing judgment on Jiang, a Marxist who feels he is following the scientific laws of history. "There is, after all," Clinton said, "a Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Jiang was unmoved. He replied to a question about imprisoned dissidents by snapping, "I am the President of the People's Republic of China, not the chief judge...