Word: marxist
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Graham said much of the reaction against science is linked to the rejection of Communism because "the Marxist government in charge for 70 years put science on a pedestal." He added that "when the Soviet Union disappeared...many of the ideals were discredited along with the government...
Warsh puts economic history into a larger context of culture and ideas. In one essay, he links the Marxist theory of "Punctuates equilibrium" in economic evolution and Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould's hotly-debated theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolutionary biology...
Moving Off of Hockey: Just for the record, the men's and women's squash teams are very good. Five out of the top 10 women and the top two men in the country are from Harvard. That is domination in the true Marxist sense of the word...
...Nationalism was the strongest sentiment for the Russian people. But you have to understand, things weren't discussed, there were only cliches but people couldn't really talk or try to reformulate anything. This international Marxist ideology became for 70 years a part of Russian identity. So when it was cut off, it created confusion--the situation of anomie, and one was only able to find clear identity in the old traditional nationalism that was not contaminated by association of Communism...
...HADN'T BEEN WARNED. PRESIDENT Violeta Chamorro's ballot-box victory over the Marxist-dominated Sandinistas three years ago, celebrated as a triumph of democracy, dimmed somewhat when she retained several former adversaries in key positions while continually quarreling with her own National Opposition Union (U.N.O.) coalition. Now Madam President has added three more Sandinistas to her Cabinet and announced a new economic plan with emphasis on social issues that appeals to the Sandinistas -- plus a 20% devaluation of the cordoba and a freeze on government spending. Fed up, U.N.O. officially broke with Chamorro, and marched through the streets...