Word: contras
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...favorite quotations. The striking Polish workers seem a lit tle farther than he from theory and a little closer to the green tree. In one sense they are behaving in a purely Marxian fash ion: proletarians rising up against the oppressors who contra the means of production. They have very far to go. The strikers now seem oddly like 19th century workers in Western Europe and the U.S. in the first stages of unionism. But perhaps there is hope. As Marx himself wrote in 1875, "The emancipation of Poland is one of the conditions for the emancipation of the working...
Their stand was contra American intervention in the war, and it is remarkable that the author makes no attempt to cosmetize her own bewildered views or the hard-line isolationism of her husband. As the diaries proceed from tragedy toward peace, Charles Lindbergh falls from legend to scapegrace, a favorite target of the Roosevelt Administration. The derision was painful and somewhat undeserved. In her convincing presentation, Charles' speeches against intervention no longer seem hysterical screeds, but misguided attempts to warn the country of its own weak defenses. And his harsh, almost mystical withdrawal from public life is sensitively shown...
...Helen Caldicott, an outspoken anti-nuclear activist and member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, told the group that "nuclear war, indeed any war, is contra-indicated... Over my dead body will they draft my sons and send them off to get killed," she added as the crowd cheered...