Word: marxists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservatives, long weary of seeing a Marxist preside over the Chamber of Deputies, had worked up the strength to oust Jose Antonio Arze, the green-eyed ex-Williams College professor who is also boss of the Left Revolutionary Party (P.I.R.). That very evening, when the President entertained the Cabinet and others at dinner, the two P.I.R. ministers chilled the turkey by handing in their resignations. Next day Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Guachalla, whom Hertzog nosed out of the presidency last January, by only 279 votes, also called it quits...
...moment the tendency is to judge the United States rather severely and to make allowances for Soviet Russia. More is expected of us [but] more will be expected of Soviet Russia in the long run because her claims are so much more sweeping than ours. . . . [But] Marxist Russia does not 'produce the goods' . . . bread comes from America and it does not come from Russia...
...Originally Communist, Partisan Review suspended publication after being disillusioned by the Moscow trials, was revived as anti-Stalinist and vaguely Trotskyite, then independent Marxist, now classifies itself as "radical democratic...
Even the efforts to fight Marxism with its own weapons have inevitably taken a Marxist turn. Both Naziism and Fascism, Biographer Schwarzschild points out, are Marxist mutations whose predestined political form is therefore the police state. In Nazi concentration camps, as in Russian forced-labor camps, Karl Marx was the presiding genius. In the name of human progress, Marx has probably caused more death, misery, degradation and despair than any man who ever lived...
...mind whose consequences have been so monstrous, this biography is singularly debonair. It is certainly the most readable life of Marx available. For those who wish to see so alarming a monster debunked, it is a complacent job of debunking. Nor need readers fear exposure to the rigors of Marxist political theory or economics. Biographer Schwarzschild lightly writes off those arid involutions...