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...Communists the world over, including those in the U. S., took a raincheck on revolution. Object: by joining a "united front" for capitalist democracy, to make the democracies allies of Soviet Russia against Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Last week world Communists, including those in the U. S., turned in the raincheck, came out from behind their false whiskers, and announced that they had just been fooling: they want their revolution after all. The new Communist name for revolution is "quick transition...
...Imperialist war . . . is tearing away the veils of hypocrisy behind which the monopoly capitalists were hiding their ruthless dictatorship. . . . Thus 'democratic' America, even while it is technically neutral, forgets its liberal dream about a 'New Deal' and loses itself in a wave of reactionary sentiment. . . . Only the working class, rising in alliance with the rest of the toiling population, and taking the decisions out of the hands of the capitalist class, can prevent...
...lumberjacks and jeans, in skating skirts and golf socks, in ski pants and starched white spats, 100-odd socialites gathered last week on the rambling estate of Capitalist Oakleigh Thorne at Millbrook, N. Y. Sniffing the crisp Dutchess County air, they galumphed over the meadows, up & down hill, tripping over cornstalks, leaping heavily over brooks & briars-in pursuit of a pack of beagles who were in pursuit of a wily hare. Local farmers would never go in for such crosscountry foolishness, but if they did, they would call it a rabbit hunt. In sport parlance this mixture of old clothes...
Theory. The failures of Marxism in practice argue fallacies in theory. The first of these, according to Parkes, is the idea that the working class alone can, or will, seize political power. The modern working class and the capitalist class are not independent as were the French bourgeoisie and aristocracy before the French Revolution; they are interdependent parts of the same economic organism...
...right, Parkes believes, in encouraging a militant trade unionism. Industrial democracy is essential. But the crucial error of Marxism, as Parkes sees it, was the theory that freedom could be attained only in a collectivized society. On this point the evidence is mountain-high. Says Henry Bamford Parkes: "Capitalist society is half free and half slave; instead of extending freedom to all, the Marxists propose to abolish the freedom...