All 23 Uses of
Marxism
in
The God of Small Things
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- Long before the Marxists came.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- The Marxists worked from within the communal divides, never challenging them, never appearing not to.†
Chpt 2
- A heady mix of Eastern Marxism and orthodox Hinduism, spiked with a shot of democracy.
Chpt 2 *Marxism = the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that capitalism will ultimately be replaced by communism
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- 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).†
Chpt 2
- It had been organized by the Travancore-Cochin Marxist Labour Union.†
Chpt 2
- How could he possibly know that in this old car there beats a truly Marxist heart?†
Chpt 2
- And the man who had forced her to wave the Marxist Party flag.†
Chpt 2
- He wondered whether Velutha had become a card-holding member of the Marxist Party.†
Chpt 4
- She, the granddaughter of an Imperial Entomologist, he the son of a grassroots Marxist Party worker.†
Chpt 5
- Neither Mammachi nor Baby Kochamma saw any contradiction between Chacko's Marxist mind and feudal libido.†
Chpt 8
- Velutha smiled when he saw the Marxist flag blooming like a tree outside his doorway.†
Chpt 10
- 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.†
Chpt 13
- Though he himself was a Congress man, he did not intend to risk any run-ins with the Marxist government.†
Chpt 13
- 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.†
Chpt 13
- A jeep with a loudspeaker drove past, blaring a Marxist Party song whose theme was Unemployment.†
Chpt 14
- 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.†
Chpt 14
- 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.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(Marxism) the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined, that class struggle is needed to create historical change, and that capitalism will ultimately be replaced by communism