Word: marxiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Affairs Center, where sanctuary and Marxist lectures are given to rebels from other African territories, including countries run by Nkrumah's black rivals...
Bing & Crowbar. Both outfits are under the influence of the growing group of extreme leftists who now surround Nkrumah, pressuring the President toward accepting closer relations with Russia and imposing a Marxist stamp on Ghana's entire economy. "Long live the workers' solidarity. Down with imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and exploitation of labor," cried an article in a recent issue of B.A.A.'s widely distributed Voice of Africa. Its author was John Tettegah, Redlining boss of Ghana's Trades Union Congress, who has sold Nkrumah on the idea of Communist-style unionism, and is trying to muscle...
Submission is indeed a major theme, uniting Brecht's pre-Marxist plays with his later work. Of In the Swamp, for instance, the author tells us he is presenting a great struggle between two men ... but he offers hardly any fighting at all. The mutual preoccupation of Shlink and Garga seems far more akin to love than hate, and when, years later, Brecht writes that he sees in this play naive intimations of class struggle, he is only superimposing political analysis upon his non-Marxist work. Similarly in A Man's a Man (pre-Marxist) a simple porter, Galy...
Still further in Galileo, Mother Courage, and The Good Woman of Setzuan (three of the Marxist plays in the present volume) the playwright illustrates what each of his major characters must give up. To Brecht yielding is psychologically far more important (or intriguing) than acquisition. The roots of his negativism may lie in the vicinity of this fact...
...recent years: the growing tendency for Catholics to espouse conservative political views. (New York liberals and conservatives alike privately admit that liberal movements tend to enlist large numbers of Jews, while conservativism appeals primarily to Catholics.) But while an ethnic interpretation of the rally might be reasonable, a Marxist one clearly is out -- the students were from all economic levels. It was by no means a rally of "Wall Street ruling circles...