Word: eisler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Reed Club, a recognized undergraduate group, last month held a meeting at which Gerhart Eisler, against whom the Justice Department has been conducting deportation proceedings, spoke on "'The Marxist Theory of Social Change." At the urging of radio commentator Fulton Lewis, Jr., a number of alumni and others wrote the College, protesting against Eisler's being permitted to speak on Harvard property...
...from an open communist which is half so great as the danger from those who would destroy freedom in the name of freedom. These decadent descendants of Jefferson and Lincoln reveal their lack of faith in American ideals and in Americans. If Harvard students can be corrupted by an Eisler, Harvard College had better shut down as an educational institution...
Speaking on "The Marxist Theory of Social Change," Eisler delivered an hour-long lecture on the history of scientific socialism, ending his talk with a prediction that "the twentieth century will see the ultimate victory of socialism in the world." Afterwards he answered questions from his audience for another hour...
...Eisler declared that until scientific socialism becomes world-wide, men will not be free from "the main, inescapable defect of capitalism, the crises of over-production," which, he said, have been responsible for great depressions in this country...
...Eisler, who is being held by the government pending settlement of deportation proceedings against him, has been appointed a professor of political science at the University of Leipzig...