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...Party. No part of Writers on the Left seems more remote from our own concerns than the world of little Marxist magazines, writers' congresses and manifestoes that flourished during the '30's. Nowadays the kind of book review that devotes 11 paragraphs to telling you about the crisis in capitalist culture and its last 3 paragraphs to explaining why the reviewer is a better Marxist than the author of the book seems hopelessly dated and quaint. Occasionally the proletcult critics were unconsciously quite funny--witness Mike Gold's attacks on Thornton Wilder. Wilder's religion was "a pastel, pastiche, dilettante...
...Capitalist Captain." Of all the U.S. Presidents who have held office since the Bolsheviks took over Russia, Roosevelt came closest to the Soviet idea of what a U.S. President should be. He won Russian gratitude for establishing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union immediately after he took office in 1933 (Democrat Wilson had "intervened" against the new Bolshevik regime; Republicans Harding, Coolidge and Hoover had refused to recognize it). Stalin in the '30s gave F.D.R. ambiguous praise as "one of the strongest figures among all the captains of the contemporary capitalist world." But the Soviet press was generally scornful...
...Communism's most significant internal split since the Stalin-Trotsky quarrel in the '20s. On one side are ranged the dominant forces in the Soviet Presidium and most of the world's Communist parties, which support Khrushchev's avowed policies of "peaceful coexistence" with the capitalist nations, his campaign against Stalin's terroristic "cult of personality," and his efforts to raise the living standards of the Russian people. On the opposite side are Red China and its tiny, faraway ally, Albania; they are apparently more willing to risk war against capitalism, they revere Stalin...
Although Harvard's mission is now "world-wide," wrote Pusey, "this is not to question Harvard's essential rootage in this nation. . . . While some of our unimaginative, vituperative detractors maintain that because we are 'capitalist' we are therefore inevitably 'imperialist,' I would assert from my recent experience that our sense of 'mission' springs rather from a feeling of responsibility and generous interest in world order; and toward this end, in the development of mutual trust and the encouragement of human liberty and well being. We are seriously devoted to the advance and development of emerging regions of the world...
...ceremony tends to reflect socialist realism, actual marriage in Russia has come to resemble marital coexistence in capitalist countries. Asked to suggest ways to "liquidate the remnants of woman's inferior position in the home.'' a 27-year-old Moscow engineer protested that modern wives are no longer inferior. They make their husbands take the children to school and do the shopping, insist on eating in restaurants, send most of the laundry out and leave the rest "unwashed and unironed until there is nothing left to wear." Said he: "It will soon be a question...