Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bureaucracy. "I do not call this Naziism. God forbid! I do not claim it is Fascism or Communism. It is none of these. It is simply that meddlesome, irritating, confusing, undermining, destructive thing called bureaucracy. It is that form of government which steals away man's rights in the name of the public interests and taxes him to death in the name of recovery...
...Though Communism and Fascism are the loudest sideshows in today's Bartholomew Fair, Socialism is still doing business at the old stand. By contrast with its fiercer-breathing rivals. Socialism has come to seem a much less frightening creed than oldsters used to think it. Even conservative quidnuncs, if they can bring themselves to read Author Brailsford's 329 big pages, will see that his doctrine is less fatal, more optimistic, than the present faiths of Rome. Berlin and Moscow. A sometimes brilliant and always lucid writer, Author Brailsford has given a masterful summation of the Socialist worldview...
...greatest evils from which a country can suffer are foreign control and Communism," His Majesty has said, only to add darkly: "If Persia had to choose between the two I should be the first to put myself at the head of a Communist army...
...began: "Who is this Mr. Bourgeoisie? I'd like to meet him. From what the chairman says, he must be a pretty fine fellow. I'm here to answer the charges of the Communists. The chairman has announced that the issue before you tonight is that of Communism or Fascism. That's a lot of baloney." "Boooo!" "We're ordinary people here in Pittsburgh. We don't want to be bothered by Communists and Fascists. . . ." "Boooo! Boooo!" "I'm Mayor of Pittsburgh. I deserve a little respect. . . ." "Horsefeathers!" Flushed with exasperation, Mayor Mc-Nair...
...accounts of various difficulties of the new program. While often disjointed and confusing it gives a wealth of intimate detail and ancedetal background. The story is not propaganda although it employs the pattern of a five-year plan epic and tires unsuccessfully to show how the new motivations of communism will replace the material motives of capitalism. The story is neither novel or text-book but has its value in its, wide scene and pictorial power...