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During his time at Harvard, Mayersohn lived in Leverett House and concentrated in physics. He was active in politically progressive student organizations, including Students for a Democratic Society and the Spartacus Youth League, a left-wing, Trotskyist organization. Mayersohn added, “I also spent a lot of time at the Harvard Book Store...
VACLAV HAVEL, former President of the Czech Republic, called him a "Maoist, a Trotskyist ... a phenomenon unto himself." Starting in the 1950s, rebel philosopher-poet Egon Bondy drew followers with his surreal fiction--published and distributed covertly--which offered veiled, witty critiques of his country's Stalinist government. But the weirdest and most influential role the vocal Marxist played was as the inspiration and lyricist for a seminal Czech underground rock band, the Plastic People of the Universe. The arrest of the Plastics at a 1976 rally sparked Charter 77, the Havel-led protest movement that in 1989 toppled...
...debate is the question of whether progressive forces can embrace the market without compromising their social priorities?or losing their political souls. The inability to resolve that conundrum has bled France's once-mighty Communist Party to near extinction. Disgruntled working-class voters have increasingly sought ideological solace in Trotskyist movements?or defected to the thuggish populism of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Other members of the leftist coalition have experienced a similar flight. The Green Party, for instance, found that the pragmatism required to be in government alienated many of its members, who had expected uncompromising policies...
...campaign from Le Pen’s National Front. None of these views is incorrect. Jospin is, by all accounts, an honest but dull man who has trouble inspiring confidence. A selection of seven parties split left-wing support, with three different—but similarly laughable—Trotskyist parties garnering 11 percent of the vote. Jospin’s Socialists and Chirac’s Rally for the Republic Party ran extremely lackluster campaigns. However, all of these factors cannot explain how a man who in 1987 described the Holocaust as a “minor detail...
...combined vote for Jospin and those to the left of him was around 42 percent. The combined vote for Chirac and those to his right was a slightly lower figure. Right now there are a lot of leftwing voters out there kicking themselves for having voted for a Trotskyist candidate rather than for Jospin...