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  • No political gathering managed to attract so many people until half a century later, when the first Marxist candidate attempted, through strictly democratic channels, to become President.†   (source)
  • The leader of this coalition was a man named Laurent-Désiré Kabila, a former Marxist rebel who had been educated in France and was, until his rapid ascension to power, a relative unknown in Congo.†   (source)
  • He had never sought the dissolution of the Soviet Union and never renounced his fundamental commitment to Marxism-Leninism.†   (source)
  • The university students, once great fans of the military "committee," were now split into those pushing for democracy and those who felt nothing short of an Albanian-style Marxism would do.†   (source)
  • There, her professor of Marxism expounded on the following theory of socialist art: Soviet society had made such progress that the basic conflict was no longer between good and evil but between good and better.†   (source)
  • But years ago he'd concluded that Marxism wouldn't answer the questions posed by the suffering he encountered in Haiti.†   (source)
  • Are you with a Marxist newspaper?†   (source)
  • If I could not challenge their dedication, I could still question the philosophical and practical underpinnings of Marxism.†   (source)
  • But I'm no Marxist; we Fifths have a practical program.†   (source)
  • You can measure such things solely with your eyes, and besides, when the last judgment comes, even Marxists won't have protractors.†   (source)
  • We're not Marxists, we're nothing.†   (source)
  • Didn't it lead, inevitably, to Marxism?†   (source)
  • "You fertility deities are worse than Marxists," he said.†   (source)
  • Why on earth should a man, because he is a Marxist, be a drivelling idiot?†   (source)
  • FATHER-ROBERT: Marxists.†   (source)
  • Marxism doesn't stand a chance in Latin America.†   (source)
  • How could he possibly know that in this old car there beats a truly Marxist heart?†   (source)
  • It's counter to the principles of how Marxism seeks to understand nature.†   (source)
  • He wondered whether Velutha had become a card-holding member of the Marxist Party.†   (source)
  • The first thing the Marxists are going to do is destroy freedom of the press!" several voices said.†   (source)
  • And the man who had forced her to wave the Marxist Party flag.†   (source)
  • The Marxists haven't won by popular vote anywhere in the world," his confreres replied.†   (source)
  • Velutha smiled when he saw the Marxist flag blooming like a tree outside his doorway.†   (source)
  • The minute I look away, the Marxists will pull that chair right out from under you!†   (source)
  • A jeep with a loudspeaker drove past, blaring a Marxist Party song whose theme was Unemployment.†   (source)
  • It had been organized by the Travancore-Cochin Marxist Labour Union.†   (source)
  • She, the granddaughter of an Imperial Entomologist, he the son of a grassroots Marxist Party worker.†   (source)
  • Mac, who had studied in the German Democratic Republic, taught a course in Marxism.†   (source)
  • I line his Marxist pockets so that his mistresses live like concubines of the Central Committee.†   (source)
  • Unlike Marxism, it is ineffable, and it cannot be explained in words.†   (source)
  • It's why I'm trusted, needed by the leaders of world Marxism!†   (source)
  • The Marxist analysis, which liberation theology borrowed, seemed to him undeniably accurate.†   (source)
  • Marxism's call to revolutionary action was music to the ears of a freedom fighter.†   (source)
  • Marxism won't carry you into the next world," Alessandro said.†   (source)
  • One does not compromise with Marxist animals — or with liars.†   (source)
  • He's been dealing with the Marxists too long.†   (source)
  • That sounds like the surplus value theory to me, fella, and you sound like a Marxist.†   (source)
  • I don't know a movement more selfcentered and further removed from the facts than Marxism.†   (source)
  • It is true, as I have already stated, that I have been influenced by Marxist thought.†   (source)
  • However— Marxism is too uncertain of its ground to be a science.†   (source)
  • Marxism is a positive science, a theory of reality, a philosophy of history.†   (source)
  • -even though the data in the comiog insisted that the dropship of seventy colonists who had crashed on this plateau four hundred years ago had held only Neo-Kerwin Marxists, all of whom should have been indifferent if not openly hostile to the old religions.†   (source)
  • Right from the start, his friend and colleague Friedrich Engels contributed to what was subsequently known as Marxism.†   (source)
  • The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value.†   (source)
  • Who's Karl Marxist?†   (source)
  • In our own century, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and many others also made their contribution to Marxism, or Marxism-Leninism.†   (source)
  • "A true Marxist is objective, Comrade Political Officer," Ramius chided, savoring this last argument with Putin.†   (source)
  • He didn't trust the Germans, Marxists or not, but they did make good medical equipment, including his X-ray, autoclave, and most of his pharmaceuticals.†   (source)
  • Apart from these, the twentieth century has naturally also been influenced by what we might call Neo-Marxism in a myriad of various trends.†   (source)
  • Marxism led to great upheavals.†   (source)
  • Later on he allied himself with the Marxist movement in France, but he never became a member of any party.†   (source)
  • I began to think I had been wrong to do as I had and that perhaps after all this was not the best way to overthrow Marxism.†   (source)
  • It is said of Marx that he only became a Marxist in the mid-1840s, but even after that he could at times feel it necessary to assert that he was not a Marxist.†   (source)
  • We want Marxism to be a colossal failure and for it to fall alone, so we can erase it from the people's minds throughout the continent.†   (source)
  • Nor did they put much stock in international condemnation, which lumped them in the same category as the other tyrannies of the region, because it seemed a small price to pay for the defeat of Marxism.†   (source)
  • Senator Trueba, who despised these things on principle, realized what his friends at the club had meant when they had assured him that Marxism did not stand a chance in Latin America because it did not allow for the magical side of things.†   (source)
  • Chacko's hero, Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad, the flamboyant Brahmin high priest of Marxism in Kerala, became Chief Minister of the first ever democratically elected Communist government in the world.†   (source)
  • He was the first to declare in public that only a military coup could halt the advance of Marxism because people who had anxiously waited fifty years to be in power would not relinquish it because there was a chicken shortage.†   (source)
  • Structurally—this somewhat rudimentary argument went—Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity, Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the Party, and the form and purpose of the journey remained similar.†   (source)
  • Neither Mammachi nor Baby Kochamma saw any contradiction between Chacko's Marxist mind and feudal libido.†   (source)
  • To Senator Trueba, all political parties except his own were potentially Marxist, and he could not distinguish one ideology from another.†   (source)
  • The Marxists worked from within the communal divides, never challenging them, never appearing not to.†   (source)
  • He could not believe what was happening, even though he had been singing the same old song for years about how the country was crawling with Marxists.†   (source)
  • His one obsession was to destroy what he called "the Marxist cancer," which was slowly gaining ground among the people.†   (source)
  • Though he himself was a Congress man, he did not intend to risk any run-ins with the Marxist government.†   (source)
  • Her old fears of the Revolution and the Marxist-Leninist menace had been rekindled by new television worries about the growing numbers of desperate and dispossessed people.†   (source)
  • It was no effort for him to believe that the misery his granddaughter reported was a Marxist fabrication.†   (source)
  • As soon as the military can straighten out the chaos that the Marxists left the country in, this kind of problem will be resolved.†   (source)
  • Long before the Marxists came.†   (source)
  • Everywhere there were posters reminding citizens that it was their duty to inform on Marxists and turn in the fugitives or else they would be marked as traitors and brought to justice.†   (source)
  • Where an old Englishman ghost, sickled to a tree, was abrogated by a pair of two-egg twins—a Mobile Republic with a Puff who had planted a Marxist flag in the earth beside him.†   (source)
  • This time as part of a coalition between what had by now become two separate parties—the Communist Party of India, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist).†   (source)
  • Everyone knows I was the Marxists' chief enemy, the first to oppose Communist dictatorship and to dare say in public that only the military could prevent the country from falling into the clutches of the left.†   (source)
  • He expressed his regret that the Army's action, whose purpose had been to eliminate the threat of a Marxist dictatorship, had condemned the country to a dictatorship far more severe, one that, to all evidence, was fated to last a century.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Estha walked past Lucky Press—old Comrade K. N. M. Pillai's printing press, once the Ayemenem office of the Communist Party, where midnight study meetings were held, and pamphlets with rousing lyrics of Marxist Party songs were printed and distributed.†   (source)
  • ministering to the poor behind my back in the abandoned wing of the house, my clairvoyant Clara, and anyone who tells Alba people are after him gets her to risk her life for him, even if he's a total stranger, I've already told her, I warned her time and again they could lay a trap for her and one day it would turn out that the supposed Marxist was an agent of the secret police, but she never listened to me, she's never listened to me in her life, she's more stubborn than I am, but even so, it's not a crime to help some poor devil get asylum every once in a while, it's not so serious that they should arrest her without taking into account that she's my granddaughter, the granddaughter o†   (source)
  • Every morning at breakfast the Imperial Entomologist derided his argumentative Marxist son by reading out newspaper reports of the riots, strikes and incidents of police brutality that convulsed Kerala.†   (source)
  • Chacko was a self-proclaimed Marxist He would call pretty women who worked in the factory to his room, and on the pretext of lecturing them on labor rights and trade union law, flirt with them outrageously.†   (source)
  • The peasants were still living exactly as they had in colonial times, and had not heard of unions, or Sundays off, or the minimum wage; but now delegates from the new-formed parties of the left, disguised as evangelicals, were beginning to infiltrate the haciendas, with a Bible tucked under one armpit and Marxist pamphlets under the other, simultaneously preaching the abstemious life and revolution or death.†   (source)
  • Even Chacko—who knew that the fervent, high-pitched speeches about Rights of Untouchables ("Caste is Class, comrades") delivered by Comrade Pillai during the Marxist Party siege of Paradise Pickles were pharisaic—never learned the whole story.†   (source)
  • She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic—who forgot the candles, who broke the wineglasses, who lost the ring.†   (source)
  • Odd, considering that Margaret Kochamma didn't know that it was Estha—Stirring Wizard with a Puff—who had rowed jam and thought Two Thoughts, Estha who had broken rules and rowed Sophie Mol and Rahel across the river in the afternoons in a little boat, Estha who had abrogated a sickled smell by waving a Marxist flag at it.†   (source)
  • ...So Santos joined forces with Carlos, two disillusioned Marxists in search of their personal cause-or maybe their own personal Hollywood.†   (source)
  • He had been droning along about "value," comparing the Marxist theory with the orthodox "use" theory.†   (source)
  • 'Sheng's an avowed Marxist where the centralized state is concerned, but he has a healthy respect for capitalistic profits.'†   (source)
  • I come out of a country where educated men are promoted at the whim of morons who recite Marxist litany by rote.†   (source)
  • Mengistu Haile Mariam, Strength of Mary, Secretary General of the Council of Peasants and Workers, Chairman of the Military Council of Socialist Ethiopia, President-for-Life of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Peoples of Ethiopia, General in Command of the Bureau for Armed Struggle Against Imperial Aggression in Tigre and Eritrea, had adopted an Albanian style of Marxism.†   (source)
  • In Caracas, a spokesman for the Venezuelan Communist Party said Ilich is the son of a 70-year-old Marxist lawyer living 450 miles west of Caracas, but "neither father nor son belong to our party."†   (source)
  • Damned clever, these backward Marxists.†   (source)
  • And he had quarrels with the Marxists he'd read: "What I don't like about Marxist literature is what I don't like about academic pursuits—and isn't that what Marxism is, now?†   (source)
  • But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my Communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance of Marxist philosophy.†   (source)
  • There is a priest, a socially oriented militant priest, who claims to be a Marxist agitator well known to the courts of New York City.†   (source)
  • He had no patience with Marxism, Julianism, socialism, and the other economic faiths that endeavored not merely to explain everything but to reorder and replace that which had come into being in spite of a thousand philosophies, ten thousand theories, and uncountable millennia of nature, necessity, and chance.†   (source)
  • He is said to be a Venezuelan, the son of a fanatically devoted but not very prominent Marxist attorney (the Ilich is the father's salute to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and partially explains "Carlos' " forays into extremist terrorism) who sent the young boy to Russia for the major part of his education, which included espionage training at the Soviet compound in Novgorod.†   (source)
  • And he had quarrels with the Marxists he'd read: "What I don't like about Marxist literature is what I don't like about academic pursuits—and isn't that what Marxism is, now?†   (source)
  • I'll try to wink like a Marxist.†   (source)
  • He'd claim that many of the old line Marxists in the Central Committee would applaud such a move, and he'd be right.†   (source)
  • Twenty-eight seconds later, irritatingly clocked by the attorney as he silently counted Vladimir Sulikov was a wiry seventy-three-year-old full of nervous energy, a scholar and former professor of history at Moscow University, a committed Marxist, yet oddly enough, considering his position, not a member of the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • And he had quarrels with the Marxists he'd read: "What I don't like about Marxist literature is what I don't like about academic pursuits—and isn't that what Marxism is, now?†   (source)
  • Over the next three months, the state produced one hundred seventy-three witnesses and entered into the record thousands of documents and photographs, including standard works on Marxism, histories of guerrilla warfare, maps, blueprints, and a passport made out to one David Motsamayi.†   (source)
  • The West's face is beet red with internal capitalistic corruption, so the territory marches to a Marxist drum — actually they wouldn't have a choice.†   (source)
  • The Marxists Farmer had read, and many of the intellectuals he knew, disdained religion, and it was true that some versions of Christianity, and more than a few missionaries, invited impoverished Haitians into what Père Lafontant called "the cult of resignation," into accepting their lot patiently, anticipating the afterlife.†   (source)
  • In my reading of Marxist works, I found a great deal of information that bore on the type of problems that face a practical politician.†   (source)
  • I did not deny that I was attracted by the idea of a classless society, or that I had been influenced by Marxist thought.†   (source)
  • This was another reason why I amended my view of Communists and accepted the ANC position of welcoming Marxists into its ranks.†   (source)
  • Dr. Dadoo, one of the leaders of the 1946 resistance, was a well-known Marxist whose role as a fighter for human rights had made him a hero to all groups.†   (source)
  • From my reading of Marxist literature and from conversations with Marxists, I have gained the impression that Communists regard the parliamentary system of the West as undemocratic and reactionary.†   (source)
  • Marxists gave serious attention to national liberation movements and the Soviet Union in particular supported the national struggles of many colonial peoples.†   (source)
  • But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my Communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance of Marxist philosophy.†   (source)
  • From my reading of Marxist literature and from conversations with Marxists, I have gained the impression that Communists regard the parliamentary system of the West as undemocratic and reactionary.†   (source)
  • They pad your body and arm and neck and put a steel guard on your eyes and nose and across your ears—this is not like encountering a pragmatic Marxist in the jungle.†   (source)
  • As far as the Communist Party is concerned, and if I understand its policy correctly, it stands for the establishment of a State based on the principles of Marxism.†   (source)
  • His parents had been German Jewish refugees, Marxists, and it was not until 1946 that the family returned home, anxious to take part, whatever the personal cost, in the construction of Stalin's Germany.†   (source)
  • I wish to deal with this and with my own political position, because I must assume that the State may try to argue from certain Exhibits that I tried to introduce Marxism into the ANC.†   (source)
  • But this does not mean we are Marxists.†   (source)
  • Marxism arose, it uncovered the root of the evil and it offered the remedy, it became the great force of the century.†   (source)
  • From my reading of Marxist literature and from conversations with Marxists, I have gained the impression that communists regard the parliamentary system of the West as undemocratic and reactionary.†   (source)
  • From my reading of Marxist literature and from conversations with Marxists, I have gained the impression that communists regard the parliamentary system of the West as undemocratic and reactionary.†   (source)
  • They were textbooks of Marxism.†   (source)
  • Marxism a science?†   (source)
  • Today I am attracted by the idea of a classless society, an attraction which springs in part from Marxist reading and, in part, from my admiration of the structure and organization of early African societies in this country.†   (source)
  • So you see, the whole of this nineteenth century —its revolutions in Paris, its generations of Russian exiles starting with Herzen, its assassinations of Tsars, some only plotted, others carried out, the whole of the workers' movement of the world, the whole of Marxism in the parliaments and universities of Europe, the whole of this new system of ideas with its newness, the swiftness of its conclusion, its irony, and its pitiless remedies elaborated in the name of pity-all of this was absorbed and expressed in Lenin, who fell upon the old world as the personified retribution for its misdeeds.†   (source)
  • There's Marxism for you.†   (source)
  • I have read the Handbook of Marxism that Emil Burns edited.†   (source)
  • You're not a real Marxist and you know it.†   (source)
  • [Note 1, below] The jargon peculiar to Marxist writing (HYENA, HANGMAN, CANNIBAL, PETTY BOURGEOIS, THESE GENTRY, LACKEY, FLUNKEY, MAD DOG, WHITE GUARD, etc.) consists largely of words and phrases translated from Russian, German or French; but the normal way of coining a new word is to use a Latin or Greek root with the appropriate affix and, where necessary, the '—ize' formation†   (source)
  • First of all, there was a scroll of paper twenty yards long—one page pasted to another—which had drawings depicting the history of the human race from a Marxist point of view.†   (source)
  • They were from his sister and Robert Jordan learned that everything was all right in Tafalla, that father was well, that mother was the same as always but with certain complaints about her back, that she hoped he was well and not in too great danger and she was happy he was doing away with the Reds to liberate Spain from the domination of the Marxist hordes.†   (source)
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