Word: marxiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that a Marxist necessarily has a closed mind is not merely wrong; it shows a lack of understanding of what Marxism is, and how Marxists think. Marxism is a philosophy, a science; it is a method of analysis, a way of looking at things. Marxists do not get answers from their science - only questions to ask, and a way to go about answering them. If American universities are really teaching their students to believe that membership in the Communist party must imply "a loss of independence of mind, and adherence to a rigid, anti-American ideology," then American universities...
...genuine reformers from the Communists. And there are still, as Fulbright says, Latin Americans who cry Communism to resist change. But the U.S. has found plenty of anti-Communists to back-anti-Communists who are also reformers. It wholeheartedly supports Chile's President Eduardo Frei, who beat a Marxist to win office. It has committed $119 million to help Peru's Fernando Belaúnde Terry wage a social revolution that will aid millions of backlands Indians...
...praised for defending the autonomy of culture against the depredations of those who called for Commitment. But Mr. Lasch is far more interested in the failings of the '40's and '50's, and perhaps it is here that he is most illuminating. He notes that the post-Marxist "realist" school of political analysis, fathered by Niebuhr on Kennan, Morgenthau, Charles Osgood, Louis Halle, and John F. Kennedy, has based most of its concept of America's world role on the European situation, where the possibility of imperialism is understandably slight. Btu in the undeveloped world? Mr. Lasch hints that...
...social and economic forces. The nation does not now possess the know-how or the energy to raise itself from poverty and despair. To that extent, India's lethargy is a valuable check against firebrand revolutionaries who would hope to trade on Indian misery with offers of Marxist panaceas. Shastri's emphasis on agriculture is only a stop-gap measure, certainly not the ultimate answer to India's woes. Once it has learned to feed itself, it can then move slowly, sanely toward industrial self-sufficiency. It may take a bolder man than Shastri to carry such...
...support from students and intellectuals, his party has done little to exploit the latent "time for a change" philosophy that should militate in its favor after 16 years out of power. The party slogan, "Sicker ist sicker" (roughly, "Play it safe") is designed to reassure voters that, despite their Marxist origins, the Socialists are now a respectable, middle-class party -but somehow the words seem more appropriate for, say, the Christian Democrats...