Word: syndicalist
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...bankers' war, with its attack articles and smears in various financier-controlled media, has taken its toll. It has deepened the impression, widespread in the West, that Yeltsin's Russia is in danger of becoming what U.S. researchers recently called a "criminal-syndicalist state" controlled by an alliance of corrupt politicians, businessmen and crime bosses. It has shattered the credibility of the media, which for a few brief years following the collapse of the Soviet Union had a reputation for independence and integrity. And it has damaged the standing of the young reformers, Chubais and Nemtsov. Alexander Oslon, who polls...
...Fellini's La Dolce Vita and the indecisive director in Fellini's 8 1/2, Mastroianni might have been typed as an existentialist heartthrob, a Valentino for the atomic age. But by the early '60s he was also playing a comic-pathetic roue in Divorce, Italian Style; a quiet-spoken syndicalist in The Organizer; a trio of Italian males in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. From these disparate parts emerged the full image of Mastroianni: a sensual, reasonable man, agreeably passive, remarkably resilient, lost and vulnerable behind the mask of bravado. A man who wins, or survives, through a weakness: his ironic...
...John Reed '10 thought you were too stuck up and clubby, and you probably were. Now you are consciously, sub-consciously and unconsciously racist and facist and sexist and communist (or Marxist-inspired) and incestuous and pederastic and homophilic and homophobic and wishy-washy and contentious and anarcho-syndicalist and autocratic and authoritarian and libertarian and middle-class and upper-class and naive and snobby...
...book is "The best epitaph a man can gain is to have accomplished daring deeds of valor against the enmity of fiends during his lifetime." Worthy sentiments, but that hardly makes the comic Nylon Pindar a fiend. More a shitsucker, in Chet's phrase, more Runyonesque. The Caribbean syndicalist novel is not an art form of the future; after all, Hero's engine never really ran anything; it just went around in circles...
...bottom of the trench I said, 'How is it possible that I, anti-patriot, anti-militarist, who acknowledged only the International, come to attacking my companions in misery and perhaps shall die for my enemies against my own cause and my own interests?'" --a French syndicalist, after the World War I mobilization...