Word: marxiste
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Often the dialogue ends with some sort of Marxist summation. In pre-med row, for example, a spiral of obscenities draws this comment: "Manifestations of anger in response to an oppressive university and society...
...come from the left. When you read the work of the black Caribbean historian C.L.R. James, you see a part of the world break its long silence: a silence not of its own choosing but imposed on it by earlier imperialist writers. You do not have to be a Marxist to appreciate the truth of Eric Hobsbawm's claim that the most widely recognized achievement of radical history "has been to win a place for the history of ordinary people, common men and women." In America this work necessarily includes the histories of its minorities, which tend to break down...
...Harvard seem to realize, however, the primary reasons why poverty occurs. Every so often, Marxist exploitation theory, in diluted or concentrated form, pops up as an explanation. Exploitation occurs, of course. But exploitation theory fails to explain why workers who should have continued to grow poorer with the rise of capitalism have instead continued to rise into the bourgeoisie...
There were, as a good Marxist might say, contradictions in Gorbachev's claim to leadership of a cause that represents a repudiation of him personally, a cause he continues to denigrate as not in the country's best interests. But the performance was nothing less than a tour de force. He was at his most formidable steamrolling over the gaps and rough spots in the logic of his own position...
Plagiarism is officially the only paper-writing no-no we are supposed to worry about. The Ad Board insists that students cite quotes correctly, don't turn in the same paper to two classes and include correct footnotes. But they could probably care less if we totally misconstrue Marxist theory or get our signifiers and signifieds mixed...