Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bankers will not like either Author MacLeish's tone or his implications; neither will radicals. Between the Yes & No of Communism and Capitalism he preserves a catalytic neutrality. Neither McGafferty nor the angry unemployed speak for their author, who saves his thunder for the last line, shouted by the chorus: "Man's fate is a drum...
...every reader of the Hearst press knows that Bolsheviks have beards, and carry bombs in their Left hands. How have these gentlemen managed so long to keep their true character hidden while teaching Communism to American youth...
...Communism is to be defeated in this country, moreover, its doctrines must be met by convincing arguments and its charges disproved or adequately explained. Driving the organization underground is evasion of the issue. The Communist Party is attracting members because its arguments and charges are forcefully and clearly set forth so that the common man can understand their import. He many not understand the intricacies of "dialectical materialism" or "surplus value," but he does know that he cannot find work, though he is willing, that men reap financial gains far greater than their usefulness to society merits, and that...
...Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping his old friends. After that he met Lenin and Trotsky, directed Russian terrorists from England until the Revolution...
Monday's editorial proclaims itself in favor of toleration for both Fascism and Communism. Unfortunately it never works out that way. We have yet to see the CRIMSON defending a radical, as it did Professor Gini and Ernst Hanfstaengl, merely because it wished to preserve Harvard's liberalism. We notice that there are no faculty members giving the Communist position, as there are ones defending Fascism. The best case in point was the expulsion of Professor Laski from the faculty some time ago because he was too radical...