Word: theoretician
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...people that Fidel Castro was giving up one of his most important posts. The official announcement last week merely stated that the all-powerful National Agrarian Reform Institute, which runs Cuba's communized agriculture, was getting a new boss. He is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, a longtime Communist economic theoretician and, next to Secretary-General Bias Roca, top man in the party's hierarchy...
...requested. Cheered by the news, Kennan attended Tito's annual hunt for Belgrade's diplomatic chiefs of mission. At the traditional hunt dinner (which went on until 6 a.m.), Kennan was surprised to find himself the guest of honor, seated between Tito and Edvard Kardelj, the party theoretician who is Tito's likely successor. For several hours Kennan aired his grievances before Yugoslavia's top leadership. Shorn of his initial optimism, Kennan had reminded himself that the Titoists are genuine Communists, and had reminded them that the U.S. cannot be used as a mere convenience. With...
...statists" hopelessly naive and the pawns of capitalists, but allowed for cooperation with such misguided liberals to serve Communist ends. In the colonialist struggles, even local business groups (in Marxist jargon, "the nationalist bourgeoisie") still have a "progressive role" that is "not yet spent." An orthodox, old-fashioned Marxist theoretician might find some of this ambivalence not very well thought out as doctrine, even while conceding its usefulness as propaganda...
...Moscow's in-the-know circuit, other somewhat obvious candidates are brusquely dismissed. First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 65, the hardy survivor of a dozen plots and purges, is an Armenian. Tousle-haired Party Secretary Mikhail Suslov, 58, the "hard line" party theoretician, is rated too theoretical; First Deputy Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 58, a veteran economic planner, is thought to lack the stomach for the job. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev was earlier kicked upstairs...
...convention came admiring fraternal delegates from 30 lands, among them top-ranking Red Theoretician Jacques Duclos of France. The Communist newspaper Hoy, which Carlos Rafael Rodríguez edits, chortled happily: "The monstrous version of the Communist with knife between his teeth has completely disappeared in Cuba...