Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Trotskyist analysis of the Soviet Union and the other deformed workers states is that the economic gains of the anti-capitalist revolutions remain intact; i.e. there is no bourgeoisie, private property has been collectivized and there is a planned economy. But the self-serving Stalinist bureaucracies have politically expropriated...
New alignments for a coming global war are ominously being sketched on the horizon. The task of Marxists is not to hide this terrible reality but to tell the simple truth: only workers revolution can prevent nuclear annihilation.
But creating a rule of law will be difficult for a country that has had virtually no formal legal system for almost two decades. After they came to power in 1949, the Communists issued some Soviet-style statutes, but the system withered away during the Cultural Revolution. Public trials were...
Though the Cultural Revolution stretched lawlessness to an extreme, China never has had much use for formal litigation and lawyers. Ever since Confucius, the Chinese have valued collective harmony over the assertion of individual rights and the adversary system now characteristic of American justice. Lawyers did not practice privately in...
The time may come when Brunnhilde will pole-vault to her immolation,when Lohengrin will wear a T shirt with his name on it. Wagner was a composer with a bold theatrical imagination; one might think that his instructions would occupy directors for centuries. Instead his works have revisionists been...