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Darkness and Dawn starts off like any "bourgeois" novel of the old pre-War snow-smothered Russia, but it has not gone far on its 570-page way before the rails begin to appear. Its scene opens among the Petersburg intelligentsia, gradually broadens to include engineers, workers, peasants, revolutionaries. All around the horizon the skies are darkening; as the atmosphere thickens and the wind rises, these rootless figures swirl in ever madder gyrations. Everyone hails the Revolution as the beginning of a new era, but for many it is the dawn of their last day. Though, like all well-behaved...
Union is the first to strive, without discrimination of sex or race, affluence or position, to produce not merely an intelligentsia but a cultivated nation"); 4) a bureaucracy manned largely by unpaid volunteers; 5) "the vocation of leadership" supplied by the Communist Party; 6) the cult of science (unlike those "in command of most other states, the administrators in the Moscow Kremlin genuinely believe in their professed faith. And their professed faith is in science"); 7) "anti-godism"; 8) the emergence of a new morality ("the recognition of a universal individual indebtedness" to society). These features, in the Webbs...
...INTELLIGENTSIA OF GREAT BRITAIN-Dmitri Mirsky-Covici, Friede...
...human family is guided best by individuals not seeking power and the glow of self-importance. So let us still continue our method of developing geniuses where experience and environment build thoughts and ideas?which hardly can be created in a cold superchamber of the "intelligentsia," so-called. There will always be a varied group of humans?and to suppress the egotistical and so-called dictators is pleasant game for the masses or "rabble." Germany and its Aryan and non-Aryan idea is an excellent example of trying to place human beings on the 10¢ and $1 shelf...
...Browder claimed for U. S. Communists a rising influence even in the party of Herbert Hoover, not to mention that of President Roosevelt. No Moscow comrade snickered when he said: "The American Communist Party is reaching not only the proletarians but also the intelligentsia, farmers and professional classes and is penetrating even the framework of the two old parties." All of this, according to No. 1 U. S. Red Browder, has been accomplished by Communists claimed to total 30,000 in the U. S. and to be only 60% foreign-born today, whereas...