Word: marxiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil will uphold its inter-American and Western alliances," promised Foreign Minister Dantas. But at Punta del Este, Uruguay, in January 1962, though he condemned a "Marxist-Leninist government in Cuba," Dantas refused to vote with a two-thirds majority of the hemisphere's nations to expel Cuba from the OAS. His performance so outraged conservatives at home that they blocked Goulart's attempt to make Dantas his Prime Minister. Goulart waited until last January, then made him Finance Minister...
...mock-somber tones and with almost professional timing, the President went on to describe the discovery of a serious new Soviet threat. Khrushchev sent his son-in-law Aleksei Adzhubei over to subvert the Vatican, the President noted, and there was talk that the touring Russian had left some Marxist bibles behind in caves around the Holy City. But Washington was on to the game, warned Kennedy. The U.S. even knew the secret Soviet code name for the operation...
Instead, Mao Tse-tung took the occasion to launch his toughest, most strident blast at Moscow since the Sino-Soviet squabble began. A 60,000-word broadside in Peking's theoretical journal Red Flag declared: "Certain people, though calling themselves Marxist-Leninists, are in fact muddleheaded; they talk drivel . . . They either make endless concessions to the enemy and thus commit the error of capitulationism, or act recklessly and thus commit the error of adventurism." Peking added contemptuously that Communists like Russia's Khrushchev, Italy's Togliatti and France's Thorez, who advocated "peaceful" revolution...
Speaking at Brandeis last night, Gus Hall, reportedly secretary of the American Communist Party, predicted that the United States would eventually make a peaceful transition to socialism and then communism. The 400 Brandeis students gave Hall a respectful, and at times even warm, hearing. Dealing mostly with Marxist theory rather than current Communist practices, Hall said it "makes no sense to talk about 'exporting revolutions'--they have to come--and will inevitably come--from the experience of a people...
Often the questions bring no response. "What European nation besides England had a Socialist party with little Marxist influence?" Then, after the silence, "the answer may seem too obvious," another silence. Then, finally, "Russia herself...