Word: marxiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...militant speeches, are an unsettling element in ghettos-and not just to the police. Much of their violence has been spent fighting rival black groups. Because of their willingness to shoot back when attacked, they are often blamed for snipings in black neighborhoods. The Panthers' aim is a Marxist-style radical revolution, though so far there has been more tough talk than provable action...
...General of the U.S., the remark caused a certain furor. John Mitchell, at a press conference, set the record straight: "If you will transpose the word 'liberal' into 'violence-prone militant radicals,' I would be delighted to change them for some of the academically inclined Marxist Communists...
...revolutionary Marxist" is the way Belgian Economist Ernest Mandel describes himself. In 1962 and again in 1968, Mandel toured the U.S., lecturing at a number of universities. But because of his openly announced political creed, Mandel had to receive special clearance by the Department of Justice to make the trip...
Mandel, who lives in Brussels and edits the militantly leftist weekly La Gauche (circ. 5,000), has written a number of books. His most recent is a two-volume work titled Marxist Economic Theory. Critics both in the U.S. and abroad have praised the book's fresh, undoctrinaire approach to Marxism, and the Economist felt that "no student can afford to ignore this very important work." Mandel's ideas may clash with American beliefs, but there is something absurd in the whole Mc-Carran Act notion that the U.S. must be protected from dangerous alien contamination by keeping...
Mandel was surprised that the Justice Department opposed his entry into the U.S., "surprised that the American government is afraid of people who defend Marxist doctrine when many Marxist books are freely sold in the U.S." But he feels he has made some capital out of his rejection. "If I had gone to the U.S.," he says, "I would have addressed audiences of about 100 people." As a result of his rejection, adds Mandel, "I have been interviewed by television, and 40 million Americans will listen to my views...