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Marxism
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Marxism
The economic and social philosophy espousing free access to goods and services, the lack of distinction between classes, the lack of state or government, and common ownership (not state ownership) of the means of production. Marxism asserts that the proletariat (those with no access to capital but who provide most of the labor) will inevitably overthrow the capitalist class and that the state, after a brief period in which it controls the means of production, will fade away to create an ideal society. Marxism is a type of communism. It is named for 19th-century economic philosopher Karl Marx.
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When Oskar Lafontaine, the head of Germany's rising left-wing party Die Linke, said he would include Marxist theory in the party's manifesto, in the outline of his plans to partially nationalise the nation's finance and energy sectors, he was labeled as a "mad leftie" who had "lost the plot" by the tabloid Bild.
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Marx & Engels: A Biographical Introduction" is a thoughtfully succinct book about the lives and work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels by another devoted communist, Che Guevara, who himself made an original and unique contribution to Marxist theory and practice.
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He praises dissent, and then proceeds to list campus examples of opposition to orthodoxy: President Dave Frohnmayer's refusal to close a student paper for depicting a sexually aroused Jesus, the university's bored reaction to national criticism of a campus sociology professor who teaches Marxist theory, the invitation to the general secretary of the Communist Party USA to speak at the UO, and so on.
At UO, dissent is conformity by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
 
 
 
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