Word: marxiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irreverent Italian Communist, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who casts a solemn, hot-eyed Spanish student (Enrique Irazoqui) as Jesus and sends him out to preach among the peasantry with a social revolutionist's fervor. Yet Pasolini at his best has created something more noble and touching than a Marxist Messiah, and more authentic than the customary sun-kissed Hollywood Christ. The film's dialogue, for example, comes intact from the Book of Matthew (with English subtitles translated according to the English edition by Monsignor Ronald Knox...
...hunched his shoulders together, spreading his arms at the same time. "The idea that economic change must proceed political change is a Marxist doctrine. I am not a Marxist. I am somewhat pessimistic about the future of Spain...
Carrying on from the open-spirited tone of Pope John's encyclical Pacem in Terris, Paul VI last year set up a Vatican Secretariat for Nonbelievers to organize a dialogue with atheists, including Communists. Now, Marxist Roger Garaudy, the leading theoretician of the French Communist party, has written a book called From Anathema to Dialogue to "answer in a fraternal manner the appeal addressed to all" by Roman Catholicism. Praising it in the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro, French Novelist François Mauriac urged his fellow Catholics to "buy this book by a Communist" and read it. German...
...Garaudy's answer is that both ideologies are becoming more humanistic. Such Christian thinkers as Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, he argues, have restated the old Christian dichotomy of "either God or the world" in terms of a new "God in the world relationship." At the same time, Marxist intellectuals are abandoning their own crude "materialistic determination." Some Marxists now admit that the Christian's act of faith "bears witness to the grandeur of man." What Marxism attacked in the past was not Christians' "faith, love, aspirations and hopes," but the church's entanglement with such...
...book has not been disavowed by France's Red bosses. Nor is he the only Communist eager for dialogue. This year five leading Communists and five liberal Catholic intellectuals in Italy contributed essays to a book called The Dialogue Tested. There have been symposiums involving Marxist and Christian intellectuals at Frankfurt and Tutzing in Germany, Salzburg and Prague. None of this changes the ugly reality that the church under Communism is still persecuted; yet there is a cautious measure of hope in the fact that at least a few Marxists want to converse with Christians rather than silence them...