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Newt's Mentors Pushed 'Marxist' Values, Open Relationships

Matt Cantor — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:37:01 CST

Newt Gingrich has been keeping pretty quiet about two of his mentors lately, perhaps because he's seeking the White House, writes Tim Murphy at Mother Jones . But for a good 20 years, beginning in the late '70s, he was a loud of proponent of Alvin and Heidi Tofflers' futurist beliefs—...

O'Donnell Calls Opponent 'Bearded Marxist'

Kevin Spak — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:46:40 CDT

Christine O’Donnell tried to deflect attention to her Democratic challenger last night in an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show. After laughing off her comments that she “dabbled into witchcraft," she said that Chris Coons had done some questionable things in his youth, too. “He made some very anti-American statements apologizing...

China Prepares for Das Kapital : The Musical

Jason Farago — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:38:34 CDT

Karl Marx's Das Kapital offers hundreds of pages of dense German prose on class struggle and modes of production—so why not add some singing and dancing? That's the idea of several Chinese producers who are mounting a Das Kapital musical, which promises a live band and Vegas-style theatrics to...

Crisis-Stricken Germans Turn to Marx

Jason Farago — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:56:01 CDT

The financial crisis has made interventionists out of the most laissez-faire politicians, but in Germany the affection for state control seems to have attained new heights. The Guardian reports that sales of the works of Karl Marx have skyrocketed, with purchases of Das Kapital reportedly up 300%. As Europe's largest...

Bookish Past Might Not Help Rebel Leader

Nick McMaster — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:33:15 CDT

Though Alfonso Cano, the new commander of Colombia’s FARC rebels, is a bookish intellectual, don’t expect a new push towards government negotiations, sources tell the Washington Post. Cano, who turned to Marx in college after a middle-class upbringing, would be uniquely suited to push peaceful political action—but in its...

Verdi, Naked and Anti-American

Harry Kimball — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:51:09 CDT

A German staging of Verdi’s “A Masked Ball” leaves Uncle Sam wearing little but a mask, Der Spiegel reports. In a rebuke of US capitalism, the production parades naked retirees on a set of the World Trade Center's ruins, and offers a female singer with a Hitler mustache saluting the...

Communist Cyprus Prez to 'Work Within Free Market'

Rob Quinn — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:00:00 CST

New President Dimitris Christofias' win in Cyprus makes him the first Communist ever to lead an EU state—but he has pledged to work within the free market, reports the Guardian . His party has a Marxist manifesto, but analysts say that Christofias is a pragmatist whose policies are more social...

Pope Condemns Atheism

Sam Gale Rosen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:20:00 CST

Pope Benedict issued a strong condemnation of atheism today and warned that advances in technology must be met with similar advancements in ethics. In his second encyclical, the pope said atheist ideologies have "led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice," Reuters reports. "Man needs God," he...

Chavez Fired as Hostage Mediator

Caroline Zimmerman — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:32:49 CST

Colombia ended Hugo Chavez's try at freeing 45 hostages from Marxist rebels today, Reuters reports. The Venezuelan prez had been brokering their release for weeks when he apparently breached protocol by talking to a Colombian general. "Can you imagine (Russia's president) calling the chairman of the U.S. chiefs of...