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When the burden of these disappointments became too great for him, he decided he could no longer live with them. He was a man of honor, integrity and intelligence. He was devoted to Marxist-Leninist ideals, taking great pride that he owned little more than the clothes on his back. His narrow view of capitalism sparked our most vigorous argument...
...privileges of its elite. The means to that end are terror and bureaucracy. The result is chronic inefficiency, an unhappy, unproductive citizenry, and a country severely hobbled as it tries to participate, to say nothing of compete, in the life of the planet. Therefore, despite their internationalist pretensions, Marxist states end up with fortress economies under self-imposed siege. But in an interdependent world well into the Third Industrial Revolution, as the latest explosive advances in technology and communications are sometimes known, autarky and isolation are no longer an option. Just ask the Albanians...
Terror organizations with a Marxist-Leninist ideology are also in trouble because their political dogma has been so discredited that they are losing members and morale. The Japanese Red Army, which launched a series of bloody attacks in the 1970s, is down to 20 members. Germany's Red Army Faction is a similar example, though its small remaining core group can still inflict serious pain. R.A.F. assassins have killed two leading German financiers since December...
...calculation, there are at least seven different men's movements: 1) a sort of right-wing men's movement that is, in fact, frequently antifeminist; 2) feminist men; 3) men's rights advocates who think, for example, men get a raw deal in divorce; 4) the Marxist men's movement; 5) the gay men's movement; 6) the black men's movement, extremely important in Bly's view because of the devastation to black males in American society; and 7) men in search of spiritual growth, the Bly wing of the idea, dealing with mentors and "mythopoetics." The mythopoetic characters...
...fallen than it became obvious that there were other barriers for many former East Germans to overcome. Isolated from the world, trained to distrust everyone unlike themselves, alienated German youths lashed out in a fit of xenophobia. Often their targets were workers imported by the communist regime from other Marxist countries, like Angola and Vietnam, but sometimes they were simply anyone of another race...