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...four--Max Eastman, Will Herberg, John Dos Passos, and James Burnham--differ in almost every way except the direction of their intellectual development. Eastman, a genial, flamboyant libertine, translated Marx's Capital into English, as he did many of the works of Trotsky, his intellectual mentor. He edited two communist journals, The Masses and The Liberator, and became a learned exegete of Hegel. Herberg, a lower-class Jew whose parents emigrated from Russia, received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia in 1932, by which time he had gained a reputation in radical circles as a complex and formidable thinker...
...doubt this common attitude is significant, but more important is the fact that all four men were rather unorthodox Communists. None of them felt entirely comfortable with the corpus of Marx's thought, much less with the Stalinist Communist Party of the USA. Eastman and Burnham were both Troskyists who regarded Stalin as a Slavophilic counter-revolutionary, and neither accepted the Marxist account of the inevitable progress of history. Herberg was a member of the small Lovestoneite faction of the CPUSA, a bitter anti-Stalinist, and an exponent of "American exceptionalism"--the view that the US would have to follow...
...means." Dos Passos despised Communism for the same reason he hated corporate capitalism--he detested organization and bureaucracy. He ended up yearning for a misty Jeffersonian order of agrarian individualism. Herberg's conversion was religious in nature, and the most enigmatic of all. Burnham, like Eastman, rejected the "scientific" claims of Marxism and finally concluded that the goals it held up made no sense...
...goalie then watched helplessly as Jackie Burnham of Jackson dented the net for the winning margin...
...woman are disadvantages enough on Wall Street, but Laura Sloate has a third handicap: she has been blind since she was six years old. Even so, after a mere five years in the securities business, she grossed more than $100,000 in 1973 as a research analyst with Drexel Burnham, a major securities house. Last week she opened her own securities firm with two associates and a seat on the New York Stock Exchange...