Word: marxists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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llya Ehrenburg, strong-arm boy of Communism's literary goon squad, got roughed up a bit himself. llya, charged the Yugoslav Writers' Union in a classic piece of Marxist doubletalk, had himself been wavering from the party line on art. In one of Ilya's recent articles, he had expressed certain "esthetic sympathies" and had supported ideas "with which leading Soviet critics and also our own do not agree...
...Marxist-Leninist holy writ explains almost everything. Last week, one of its serious omissions was trumpeted to the world by Marxist-Leninist Tito of Yugoslavia. The omission: what happens when Communist revolutions succeed in two countries independently. What is the relation between the two countries...
Your reviewer of my book From the Heart of Europe [TIME, Sept. 20] found "disingenuous" my simple factual statement that one of the reasons why I am not a Marxist is "that I am a Christian, not through upbringing but by conviction, and find any materialism inadequate." He would have been less disingenuous himself in his other sweeping strictures if he had also stated that on two occasions in that book I indicated that I sometimes find TIME anything but adequate in its treatment of fact, that I cited explicitly, as one of the enemies of international understanding, "the phony...
Long before the government had buried its dead, it had moved against the leftist (but anti-Marxist) Aprista party. First it outlawed APRA, which the government flatly said "prepared and directed the movement." The government's evidence of guilt: most of the Aprista prisoners were armed when arrested, APRA was strong among the naval men who mutinied, one Aprista leader had told a friend that "revolt was imminent...
President José Luis Bustamante, harassed by recurring political crises, promptly suspended all civil rights. The revolt, he declared, had been the work of his onetime friends and present enemies, the militantly leftist (but anti-Marxist) Apristas, whom he had already blamed for last fortnight's rash of strikes, and much of the country's political unrest...