Word: marxiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Western visitors have remarked that Yugoslavia is a 100% Marxist country-50% Karl and 50% Groucho. With comic indecision, its economic planners have bobbed between ironhanded Communist controls and fleeting flirtations with capitalism. The results have not been happy. Yugoslavia's economy has been in almost constant chaos, punctuated by frequent crises of inflation, deflation and devaluation. Now it is in another economic bind. Unemployment is rising; the country is hard-pressed to meet a $1.3 billion foreign debt coming due this year, and Josip Broz Tito, the durable dictator, admitted recently that some factories are operating...
Steel Ahead. It was evident last week that Harold Wilson was certainly an odd sort of socialist, one able to beguile a French autocrat, a German burgher and a millionaire Texan. Actually Wilson is more Methodist than Marxist, and even if he wanted to nationalize everything in sight, he would be hard put to find many sizable industries that the British government does not already have a hand in. It is a fact of British life that after 13 years of Conservative rule, one of every four houses in the country is owned by public authorities, 90% of British students...
...these activities, including studies, took second place to politics. Young Pioneer meetings, discussions on politics and the Marxist classics, reports on current affairs by the Party secretary of the school, group readings of People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) editorials--these were frequent activities, and attendance was enforced by social pressure...
...Marxist-Historian...
...scientists gloomily. The industrial pollution of European and American waterways has gradually eliminated the big fish just about everywhere but in the Caspian. And every effort to encourage the sturgeon to breed in substitute man-made environments has met with total failure. The signers concluded with the questionably Marxist speculation that maybe a bit more electricity was hardly worth having no caviar to go with one's well-chilled vodka...