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...Lurid Moment. This omnibus is welcome if only for the reissue of Company K, which belongs in trench literature with Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That, Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero and John Dos Passes' Three Soldiers. When it was published (1933), one critic called it a sort of Spoon River Anthology of the war. The form was the same, in the sense that each character spoke with his own voice to compose a harsh recitative for a community. But March's community was made up of the doomed dogfaces of Soissons...
...Dos Passos, the first speaker declared that "socialism is a reality today," although at present, a political "hot potato; a pair of brass knuckles for politicians...
Forty years ago, everyone blamed the evils of the world on capitalism, and the Socialists advocated that self-government be applied to industry as a remedy for this evil, Dos Passos said. "The Socialists wanted everyone to share" and thought that this would solve the world's troubles, Dos Passos claimed...
Socialism has modified the old capitalist method into the present system which appears to be working well. Dos Passos emphasized, however, that this doesn't mean that it always will. The socialist technique has brought us up to this point, he said, but it is no longer the solution to the world's problems...
...existing socialist system, as typified by Great Britain, tends to stagnate, and its adherents lose interest and enthusiasm. This situation can be remedied only by a self-government interested in attaining a definite goal, Dos Passos said...