Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minute ritual and all the new features that a new Fraternity should have" to those who believe in ''a Supreme Being . . . in the leadership and supremacy of the White Race . . . a Bible in every school . . . Old Glory floating over every public building." They urgently oppose atheism and Communism...
...large areas of contemporary life. "The theory of present day Fascism may be briefly. expressed as the negation of the Democratic principle." We can hardly deny this, and might also assent to the proposition that in order to forecast the future "it would be necessary to subdivide Faseism and Communism into their ideal and practical forms. We should then be able to contemplate the four alternatives in the pure splendor of their conception...
...Fourth International* actually exists, with an accredited representative even in New York, one Arne Swabeck. The chief difference between it and the orthodox Third International of Communism is that members of the Fourth take their orders from Leon Trotsky instead of from Josef Stalin. But last week French citizens did not worry about these niceties. To them the Trotsky incident was just one more black mark against the fallen government of Camille Chautemps. The Chautemps Cabinet was in office during the bloody riots of Feb. 6; Camille Chautemps' brother-in-law has been charged with complicity in the murder...
...voted him out. Chief reason was that "Fred" Shorter, 39, Australian-born graduate of Missouri State University and Yale Divinity School, had. like many another thoughtful U. S. minister, turned Socialist. He believed that "Christianity and Capitalism as they now exist are not compatible"; that Christianity itself is "historic Communism." a peaceful force to transform the social order. Pastor Shorter promoted a "Consumers' Cooperative" in his church, joined the Socialist Party last year, gathered about him earnest young radicals who maintained the congregation's size as the older conservatives dropped away...
...oldtime religion, even cloaked in the new creed of Communism, is not quite good enough for John Dos Passos either. But in all countries he is glad to observe the old forms breaking up. First-rate reporter, he keeps his editorial comment packed, neatly tacit, between the lines. In All Countries is a collection of quick camera shots made in the last nine years in Russia, Mexico, Spain, the U.S. Dos Passes' angle is never strictly orthodox, from either camp's point of view, but his camera is candid, though tilted perceptibly to the left. His tale...