Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intelligent criticism of communism--or even suspected communism--requires more than a hasty attack under the name of a temporary group. Any affirmation of the advantages of democratic government must rest on positive ideas, not on random shots at the other side--and the Soviets will certainly make propaganda grist--of this weekend. We must use propaganda ourselves, and use it well, which is something that neither Schlesinger nor the State Department apparently considered when they went after the Reds in the Waldorf-Astoria woodpile...
Respect for the Enemy. During their two-year course the priest-students study economics, law (especially labor legislation), Communism, cooperatives, farm problems, history, geography, English, and the social doctrines of the Catholic Church. Each day's work is concluded with study of the Gospel-an antidote to the stiff daily dose of secular thinking...
...outside visitor, the most interesting class is that on Communism. Beneath a crucifix on the classroom wall hang two poster-size diagrams of the Soviet state organization. With the classics of Communism before them (as well as Cominform publications and books from Moscow), the young priests gather around a big table to discuss, with dialectical zeal, the fine points of Marxism. Explains their instructor, former philosophy professor Canon Don Emilio Benavent...
...Communism is our most powerful enemy. It is the strongest modern expression of a social idea-we must fight it but treat it with respect. We must study it well, deeply, and in all details so as to combat it, not with arms and force which are means of ephemeral victory, but by showing the masses-to whom we promise happiness in heaven while Marx promises happiness in mortal life-that long before Marx, St. Paul taught social justice, and that we can and must now put our theories into practice...
Britain's Robert Graves is one literary campaigner against God who refuses to find his compensation in Communism, Existentialism, or any other materialistic system. In eccentric loneliness, Graves worships his own spectacular deity-a lady known as the White Goddess, whom he declares to be the true Godhead and only true muse of poets, and to whose abandonment by erring man he attributes most of the mess in the world today...