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...gain the party's mandate for his reformist leadership before the first anniversary of the riots. As Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other East bloc party leaders looked on in the ornate Palace of Culture and Science, whose facade was decorated with a seven-story portrait of Lenin, Gierek made a strong plea to Poles for cooperation. "Our supreme aim," he declared, "is the systematic improvement of living standards"-including at least one free Saturday per month for all vvorkers. He called too for a greater sense of unity and purpose. "Poland today needs every brain, every pair...
...measure of progress that Medvedev had only to endure obscene absurdities. Committees of psychiatrists tried to discredit his mind with such limp diagnoses as "poor adaptation to the social environment," and "obsessive reformist delusions." Such labels, as the Medvedevs note, could have also been pasted on Marx and Lenin...
Footnotes throughout the book display the beneficial diversity of political integration Freire has accomplished. Mao Tse-Tung and Che Guevara were particularly helpful to Freire by defining the role of the educator among peasant classes; Vladimir Lenin contributed to his theory of praxis, and Martin Luther King provided a recent model of real Christianity integral with social change. Because of his stress on basing any liberation movement on the existential reality of the people involved in it, Freire also turned to two thinkers who view man as a psychological as well as political being, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse...
...radicals to be successful, Harrington said "the Left must go where the people are now and move with them. The American working class is not a working class of bronze giants with copies of Lenin in their hip pockets...
...VISITED IN PEKING IN 1965: "For Mao, only China counts. His first problem is to give every Chinese enough to eat and, second, to create a sense of nationhood among 800 million Chinese. To understand Mao's attitude, you must know wherein his genius lies. Whereas Marx and Lenin placed their faith in the working class as the revolutionary force, Mao put his in the peasantry. But in the Cultural Revolution, Mao employed an unknown force, one never used before as such in a revolution: youth...