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Sartre had said to the Marxists: my system has the individualist appeal that yours lacks, while yours provides a blueprint for the life of action mine implies. Let us combine. The fact that Sartre's proposed union does not seem to be philosophically possible does not make it any less worth studying. For while Marxism and existentialism may be incapable of coexisting in a real society, they coexist constantly in the imaginations of young people today. Many of these people are activists. Their programs often reflect this attempt at union. If they ever succeed in gaining some social power, what...
...Similarities. Remember 1952? There was Bob Taft, Mr. Republican, idol of his party's conservative wing, career politician, leading member of the U.S. Senate, a Midwesterner through and through, an outspoken individualist, who had worked long and hard for the nomination, thought he had it won, and was convinced that he deserved it by reason of service to his party and championship of his cause...
...also something more than the mere sum of his praise and criticism. He is a throwback to the classic American individualist, a mold which produced Thomas Edison and Thoreau-men with the fresh eye that cannot be done. What Fuller sees excites him with the vision of man's potentialities, and he has made it his mission to help man to realize them. Says he: "Man knows so much and does so little." Last week this crackpot stepped off the plane in London, spouting words the minute his feet touched ground, and headed for a dinner in his honor...
Would Communism under Trotsky have been different? As a personality, Trotsky was far more appealing than Stalin. In some ways, this anti-individualist was a true Renaissance man: brilliant orator, tough administrator, incisive historian, spectacular general. But he was also a fanatic and almost as contemptuous of human freedom as Stalin. In power alongside Lenin, he hamstrung trade unions, conscripted labor, suppressed opposition, and drove the Mensheviks from office with words that would in time be used against him: "Go where you belong from now on-to the rubbish can of history...
...Republican and Democrat, yet have "no political bias at all." In breathless order, the next Wayne president must be: "A pragmatic realist, tough, resilient, strong, self-reliant, brave, determined, practical, objective, hardworking, intelligent, flexible, responsible, humble, religious, Godfearing, altruistic, no egghead, socially attractive, good-natured, friendly, and a rugged individualist with high moral character and good judgment." The alumni do not demand that on top of all this he must also be a "scholar...