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...laws of history. By creating an increasingly numerous and impoverished working class, goes his familiar argument, capitalism produced the very forces that one day would destroy it in an Apocalypse of violent revolution. This confident prediction, which for more than a century inspired nearly all socialists with a dual certainty???their cause is just, their triumph inevitable?has been transformed into a new, often hollow orthodoxy. It is now bitterly distrusted among disillusioned socialists themselves and by new, ideologically homeless radicals...
...Last week 15,000 hungry jobless paraded in Chicago, shouted "hang Cermak and Hoover!" Communist efforts to organize the unemployed into a revolutionary force have significantly failed. Doubtless the most potent factor in keeping the country steady and averting even the threat of an armed uprising has been the certainty???such as exists in no other large country?that Nov. 8, 1932 would, in due constitutional order, bring a Presidential and Congressional election...
...QUEST FOR CERTAINTY???John Dewey?Minton, Balch ($4.00). John Dewey, philosopher's philosopher, educator's educator, has played a role in U. S. life not small but not popular.* In his latest book Dr. Dewey returns to one of his favorite attacks on a stubborn position: the problem of getting philosophical knowledge into action. Academic as Dr. Dewey may appear to the layman, he has ever had little use for a fugitive and cloistered learning that never sallies out and seeks its adversary: Life. Experimental knowledge, says he, is the most authentic, the only kind actually worth much. "Knowledge which...
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