Word: marxiste
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...happens to be an ant colony, his beloved (Sharon Stone) its overindulged princess and his nemesis (Gene Hackman) a fascist general mounting a coup adds a nice weird touch to the tale, as does the dark-toned computer animation. Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome the relief from the prevailing blandness of family films...
DIED. YANG SHANGKUN, 91, former Chinese President and unreconstructed Marxist who in 1989 gave the order for the People's Liberation Army to fire on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. A veteran of the Long March, Shangkun was an acolyte of Mao Zedong, and later his victim, imprisoned for 12 years during the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1978, he was put in charge of the army by longtime revolutionary compatriot Deng Xiaoping...
...parallels between the two Marxist alumni are eerie. China, eight times as populous as Russia and with an economy that last year expanded 20 times as fast as Russia's, suffers many of the same infirmities. Its banking system is just as rotten, corruption flourishes beyond the central government's control, labor unrest is widespread, a budget deficit is growing, taxes can't be collected, and an inefficient network of state enterprises still hamstrings a full transition to the free market...
Fervently liberal, Kaus gravitated toward Harvard faculty members with Marxist leanings. He says his favorite professor was Steve Marglin of the economics department. Kaus remembers thinking of Marglin as "a sensible Marxist...
...contemplate the value of a Harvard education, it might seem best to postpone thinking about the issue. After all, as I write this piece I am only hours away from enjoying the "Infamous Moonlight Cruise," an evening of Boston Harbor revelry. Yet at the risk of sounding like a Marxist apparatchik, the issue of how value is created and exchanged at Harvard has been at the top of my mind...