Word: trotskyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
NEAR THE END of the Student Mobilization Committee's antiwar conference in Washington last month, Michael Finley, a black student at New York's Manhattan Community College, said. "You people have been sitting here bullshitting about Leninism. Trotskyism, and all that for three day. People are dying in Southeast Asia, and World War III is just around the corner, and all you people can do is talk...
Almost invariably, Radio Moscow saves its choicest epithets for Chairman Mao Tse-tung. One recent broadcast described his thought as "an unprincipled mixture of Utopian and egalitarian ideas of the peasants' uprising, Confucianism, anarchism, Trotskyism, chauvinism, Chinese feudalism, national bourgeois ideas and other ideas contrary to Marxist principles." Mao has been excoriated as an unsteady romantic who has sponsored a gigantic "cult of the individual...