Word: marxiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian Democrats won a surprising 16% of the votes in the 1958 presidential elections, now cooperate in Winner Rómulo Betancourt's coalition government, and won last month's hotly contested Student Federation elections at the University of Caracas, whose student leadership was once almost completely Marxist...
...gains and losses of the Cuban tractor deal were hotly debated in the U.S. (see THE NATION), but in Latin American eyes, the proposal represents a monumental propaganda setback for Castro. Throughout the hemisphere, which Castro hopes to lure into sympathy with his Marxist revolution, the response to his ransom demand was one of disgust. Wrote Rio's moderately liberal O Globo, whose circulation is the biggest in Brazil: "Hitler wanted to trade Jews for trucks; Fidel Castro wants to trade Cubans for tractors. It may be that this shows progress or superiority of Communism over Naziism...
...Angry." Poland's top Marxist philosopher, Professor Adam Schaff, 48, head of Warsaw University's philosophy department and a member of the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party for the past six years, admitted last week that the question was posing a tough and touchy problem. In Paris, at the end of a three-month visit to the U.S. and France, he told about a seminar in Warsaw at which a student dropped the bombshell: "Please don't be angry, but could you explain the meaning of life...
...they were tainted by association with "idealistic" ideologies. But Philosopher Schaff recognizes that "as long as people die, suffer, lose their loved ones, just so long will questions about the meaning of life have full rights." And, says he, Communist thinking is ill-prepared to deal with these questions. "Marxist philosophy should as quickly as possible and on as wide a scale as possible take up the problem of the human individual and his fate, previously neglected by it, though evoking such a broad response...
...still off from pre-Mau Mau days; its immense plantation operation in the Congo slipped $364,000 into the red last year (though its Congolese margarine and trading companies turned modest profits). In Guinea, United Africa's business was brought to a halt a year ago when Marxist-inclined President Sekou Toure set up a government trading agency. But Toure's recent concession that Guinea's economy has room for private companies, too, has sparked the company's hopes of resuming operations. "Size is not a bad thing in Africa," muses a company executive. "Without...