Word: marxiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe (as many do) that Lukacs is the figure who speaks the most interesting or plausible form of Marxism today, much less that he is (as he has been called) "the greatest Marxist since Marx." But there can be no doubt that he has a special eminence and claim to our attention...
Dealing with the Peking rulers is frustrating because they are so implacably doctrinaire. They call us all lackeys of "Wall Street capitalist imperialism," lumping together indiscriminately Democrats and Republicans, professors and public servants, even the executive and legislative branches, all of us due for extinction by the laws of Marxist history...
Formed in 1964, five years after the party convention asked for a national Marxist youth organization, the DuBois Clubs have an estimated 2,500 members in 36 chapters, mostly in California, New York, Illinois and Wisconsin. The Berkeley chapter was a prime mover in the 1964 riots at the University of California. Since then, chapters across the country have been loud and active in opposition to U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. The clubs were named after a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., a Negro who became a Communist when he was 93 and a citizen of Ghana shortly before his death...
...rejection of ends-justifies-means ("evil was our only material... Good was the final product. Result: the good turned bad") is almost a Camus-esque rejection of political involvement. But when the father, below, says "it is easy to assume responsibility for everything when you do nothing," Sartre the Marxist repudiates this kind of pure existentialism...
...pattern of Marxist influence is also present in the structure of the play as a whole. Frantz, like Geotz of The Devil and Good Lord and Hugo of Dirty Hands, is liberated by his choice to face life as it is, which for Sartre meant choosing Marxism. "Going downstairs" is a perfect symbol for the acceptance of political participation by so many of Sartre's other characters, and suicide always follows their conversion as it does Frantz's. Yet Sartre still clings to both philosophies. For Frantz in the end escapes mauvaise-foi, his refusal to accept the reality...