Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
You cannot be a modern man and be a Marxist.
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Writer & Politician, Quoted in The Washington Post, April 2, 1990
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Since the end of WWII till the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Bulgarians were part of the Soviet Bloc and operated under communism that was supposedly based on Marxism. However it was not in many critical respects. But few modern Russian style Communists are familiar with or understand Marxism.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The Pope was not affected by the “Red Scare” that so many other world leaders has been. Typically most people opposed to Marxism generally thought that those who were Marxists were evil. Pope Francis, candidly observed that many Marxist were good people and well-intended. In his view they were wrong, being naïve or misguided.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (/ˈvɑːrɡəs ˈjoʊsə/; Spanish: [ˈmaɾjo ˈbaɾɣas ˈʎosa]), is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."
