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...have believed in the entire philosophies of the left at one period in my life, including socialism, communism, Trotskyism. All isms have influenced me one way or another." LANGSTON HUGHES, writer, during a closed-door inquiry in 1953 before Senator Joseph McCarthy's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, as documented in transcripts released last week...
...companies to pull out of South Africa is vital for reform because American made military goods and computers are helping the white minority government enforce apartheid. Damon A. Silvers '86, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Endowment for Divestiture, charged that SYE, a small, radical Trotskyism group, was using the apartheid issue "for their own sectarian, totalitarian ends." Silver added that Black workers in South Africa approve of divestiture as a way of ending apartheid...
...demonstrators and Spartacist League members exchanged top-of-the-voice charges and countercharges on subjects ranging from the Moonies to Stalinism to Reagan budget cuts and including Trotskyism, fascism, the Catholic Church, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Nazism and the Bay of Pigs, about 30 individuals inside the hall listened silently as Joseph Seymour, a member of the Spartacist League central committee, talked about Solidarity's ties to Western imperialism...
Other members represent conflicting leftist isms ranging from Trotskyism to orthodox Marxist-Leninism to "Christian Socialism." Differences about strategy and tactics have also contributed to the revolution's fragmentation. The moderates, like Ungo, for instance, may one day choose the route of political compromise with the government if-and when-their military campaign is finally and decisively defeated. The diehard Marxist-Leninists like Cayetano, on the other hand, are likely to fight on indefinitely for what they regard as a class struggle to the death...
Despite Malraux's early sympathy for militant Trotskyism, it was his relationship with Charles de Gaulle-a relationship that Le Monde's Viansson-Ponté likens to that of "sovereign and poet laureate"-that gave lasting political direction to his career. The French President considered his handsome Culture Minister "my brilliant friend" and "incomparable witness." As Malraux saw it, De Gaulle gave the French a consciousness of their own greatness...