Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Urbanization means industrialization, means a growing economic class-consciousness and conflict. Attempting to belie his Harvard-Cambridge background, Professor Holcombe juggles Marxist terms with all the savoir faire of an old line Communist, and threads a logically neat path through the mazes of Communist theory to emerge with the conviction that Leninist Communism is not inevitable but quite possible if the Party is tactically well...
What will be the fate of America, long used to sectionalism and politics devoted to obscuring economic conflicts, when she is shoved into this new situation? Will it be the Scylla of Communism or the Charybdis of Fascism? Positing that the later Greek City-States occupied a position parallel except for size with the modern state, Professor Holcombe calls in Aristotle to tell us what is possible and desirable. Let the middle class rule! Using the Communist theorist Bukharin's classification of classes he finds that the American urban middle class in alliance with the land-owning farmers can dominate...
...mistake to underestimate Professor Holcombe's book. He does know a great deal about American politics, and in pointing to a via media, a middle class compromise, he may be pointing the way for this country. Class conflict might well be ruinous to so heterogeneous a state. The reviewer chiefly takes issue with his assertion that the middle class can deal with real upper and lower class politics in a peaceful way. Astute political leadership might keep class parties from developing in America, but if this fails, then the position of the middle class seems destined to be the same...
...Another interesting phase of this conflict is the situation of Russia. Russia has made treaties of non-aggression with all the countries which surround her territory. She made proposals to Japan on much the same kind of a treaty, but Japan refused to have anything to do with Russia in a diplomatic way which means that Russia is not outside of the militaristic plans of Japan...
...Panama City. In the Zone, one of the most heavily fortified districts in the world, Secretary Hull chose to talk about disarmament: "We cannot go too far or do too much in carrying this gospel to the uttermost parts of our lands. Slaughter by the outlawed means of armed conflict would be nothing less than murder and assassination...