Word: communist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shootout on Nov. 3 was not an act of Greensboro citizens but of two sickminded organizations from outside our community. Why Greensboro was picked for such ill-considered actions by the Ku Klux Klan and the Communist Workers Viewpoint Organization is a question that everyone here would like answered...
...have a question for the members of the Christian-Patriots Defense League [Nov. 5]: I am a patriotic black American, also interested in survival. In the event of a Communist-inspired takeover, would my chances be better with the Communists...
Politics still counts, however, "A very high percentage at P.U. are at least Communist Youth members if not Communist Party members," Wen says. "But some of the Party members I've met are among the least revolutionary in their thinking. It doesn't mean as much about your politics as it did before...
...West," he says. His remarks on the distortion of thinking which results from the strict obligation to adhere to the party line reveals the bleak condition of intellectual life in a Marxist country. The historical perspective and the vision of the world which intellectuals of Eastern European communist countries are expected to uphold is "less that of the strict Marxist theory than of a more immediate justification of the actions of the men in power." This degradation of history into a pragmatic tool of general policy transforms historians into servants of the regime, "the historical front of the ruling class...
Before the establishment of communist rule, Romania enjoyed an extremely vigorous cultural life. In the pre-communist years it produced such luminaries as: Brancusi in sculpture, Iorga in history, Lipati and Enesco in music, and better-known playwright Ionesco. Today there is a general stifling of creativity and the life of the mind...