Word: marxists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guevara claimed to be a Marxist and a Leninist Womack said. He didn't really seem to be either, because "he didn't believe in the working class or the party taking power...
Unfortunately, the analogy may not be entirely valid. The Rutgers professor Eugene Genovese, one of the leading Marxist historians in America, was not doing any research for the National Liberation Front. His views on the war in Vietnam were shaped by his own theoretical outlook on revolution in underdeveloped societies, as well as his obvious revulsion at United States policy. On the other side of the coin, professors who spend a day each week in Washington, or part of their time on government research, may find their perspective slightly altered--if not warped--by their pre-occupation with "practical" matters...
...century ago in a far different world. Though Lenin had to revise Marx to fit the Russian pattern, it was Nikita Khrushchev who launched the official decline of the doctrine. Faced with the necessity of solving countless economic and social problems, today's Soviet planners find such Marxist theories as class revolution and "the dictatorship of the proletariat" just plain nuisances. The Chinese are right, of course: the Russians are revisionists. In a very real sense, Russia has survived Marxism more than it has been formed by it. "The revolution is over," says Glasgow University Sovietologist Alec Nove...
Still, Feuer, who recently spent half a year in Russia doing research, believes that another philosophy is struggling to emerge. Freed of the terror, encouraged by the thought that liberalization may continue, unburdened of at least some of the Marxist mythology, today's Russia is witnessing the gradual reassertion of "the values of individualism, of questioning, of the religious spirit, of the ethical personality, of human relations transcending party comradeship." It is difficult to guess just how far the Kremlin will allow this trend to go. But its existence nonetheless proves that the Russian character has survived Communism with...
Later, Presbyterian Blake admitted that "I went to Wittenberg on a church invitation, and I was shocked at the restrictions." For all that, Blake was encouraged by the willingness of a Marxist state to commemorate Luther in its own way, even in the dubious guise of a precursor of the proletarian revolution, and by the mere fact that East Germany's much-beleaguered Protestants were able to hold commemoration services at all. "The thing that needs to be understood in the U.S.," Blake said, "is that the church exists and lives in East Germany...