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Lenin's great experiment established a dictatorship, nominally "of the proletariat," actually of the Communist Party and eventually of Stalin alone. New class distinctions arose between workers, managers and bureaucrats. The Soviet Government has so far shown no signs of withering away-though Communists expect it eventually to do so. Meanwhile outside Russia the sometimes heroic Communist International has been effective in nothing so much as in scaring the pants off the middle class...
...great appeal and the great value of Marxism lay in its passion for social justice, and this Parkes excepts from autopsy. Marx was right, Parkes believes, in encouraging a militant trade unionism. Industrial democracy is essential. But the crucial error of Marxism, as Parkes sees it, was the theory that freedom could be attained only in a collectivized society. On this point the evidence is mountain-high. Says Henry Bamford Parkes: "Capitalist society is half free and half slave; instead of extending freedom to all, the Marxists propose to abolish the freedom...
...misunderstandings and suspicions between the two Americas." A knowledge of Bolívar, he believes, would go far to explain South Americans' history and temperament, particularly their tendency toward dictatorship. For it was that tendency which set Bolívar's main problems, finally wrecked his great dream of a pan-American union...
From Another World is Louis Untermeyer's autobiography at 53. Among other things that readers may be surprised to learn is that for 22 years Poetry's great middleman engaged in a prosperous Manhattan jewelry business. A new generation will scarcely recall that he was also on the staff of the old socialist Masses, which the Post Office Department prosecuted twice in 1918 for opposing U. S. entry into World...
...PAIR OF HANDS-Monica Dickens-Harper ($2.50). An engaging great granddaughter of Charles Dickens reports breezily on her adventures as a cook (a job she took on for adventure's sake). Her cook's-eye conclusion:"A kick in the Pants for allemployers." Novelist Compton Mackenzie contributes an appreciative foreword...