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  • China's power is increasing, but the authoritarian regime is hardly the wave of the future as some awestruck worshippers of raw power and money (whether investment bankers or ex-Marxists) imagine.

    Sidney Blumenthal: Challenges and Opportunities in the Coming Decade 2010

  • There are a lot of ex-Marxists among in the neocon/theocon circles.

    The Episcopalians do something impressive - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Convergence represents a bizarre alliance of old Lavalasians, ex-Marxists, neo-Duvalierists, liberals, and ultraconservative businessmen.

    Aristide's Haiti: An Exchange Jr., Robert Fatton 2003

  • It is strange to think of these ex-Marxists — philosophical optimists if ever such have existed — submitting to the melancholy spectacle of the crumbling pre-historic past.

    A Hero of our Time Sontag, Susan 1963

  • China's power is increasing, but the authoritarian regime is hardly the wave of the future as some awestruck worshippers of raw power and money (whether investment bankers or ex-Marxists) imagine.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • This is the final answer to all the cowards and sceptics, the cynics, the ex-Marxists, the ex-communists, and all the others who questioned the possibility of revolutionary movements in the present epoch.

    In Defence of Marxism 2009

  • As you argue in your book, the old Left was transcended long ago - as ex-Marxists were grappling the death of their hallowed meta-project, society and culture were moving on.

    newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

  • New Labour's handlers, some of them ex-Marxists, declared that we were living in

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

  • Many of the Neo-Cons were ex-Marxists but that doesn’t make them Stalinists.

    The London Carnival of Nu Liberty Guthrum 2009

  • But that aside, this business about ex-Marxists being “hip” is silly misdirection; the point is that how you judge someone who holds stupid or repugnant views has to depend to some extent on context, given that we all make judgments about what it’s reasonable or unreasonable to believe in a highly socially dependent way.

    All’s Well That Ends Mel? 2006

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