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...Center for Strategic and International Studies, "had different social and political evolutions." While both were dominated for three centuries by the Ottoman Turks, the Southern capital of Aden was seized by the British in 1839. After achieving independence from Britain in 1967, the South became the first Arab Marxist state. The North threw off the Turks after World War I and has been ruled by conservative tribes ever since...
...PAYS THE BILL? Though the A.N.C. has cast off most of its earlier Marxist affection for planned economies, it does have a five-year plan to address what Mandela refers to as "the basic needs of the masses." It is a 147-page document called "The R.D.P: The Reconstruction and Development Program," a blueprint for reorganizing and democratizing the society. At its heart is an $11 billion economic-development program that promises to provide employment and job training for 2.5 million people in public-works projects. It aims at putting up a million new houses, providing a million others with...
...still appears, but it seldom makes waves. At its zenith, though, it was home to some of America's brightest talents, from the novelist Mary McCarthy to the poet Delmore Schwartz to the critic Lionel Trilling. In its pages, tiresome Marxist posturing coexisted with the best of literary modernism; the editors, Macdonald perhaps most of all, believed that politics was of no consequence when it came to high art. Thus PR printed short stories by Kafka and poetry and essays by Anglo-Catholic royalist T.S. Eliot...
There they go again. The Crimson staff, spouting their tired Marxist rhetoric, are once again lamenting the sorrowful state of some of the world's best-paid clerical and technical workers. So why are we not crying...
...chronic disease." He had passed his university exams when the North won its victory and the Americans flew away, and therefore, as a suspect intellectual, he was sentenced to a re-education camp. Brutality in the camp was casual and causeless; what was learned in addition to parroted Marxist self-criticism was fear, hunger and aching homesickness. Jade and the others trapped rats for their guards' suppers and stayed alive by holding back some of the meat...