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...Only a militant labor party can save the United States from the sickness of capitalism," said Robert S. Lynd, professor of Sociology at Columbia University, last night at the New Lecture Hall in the second of the John Reed Society's series of lectures on Marxism...
Calling himself "skeptical of the Liberal Party, skeptical of the P.C.A., and skeptical of a Wallace Third Party," Lynd doomed all these to failure within the near future because they all "cut too shallow...
...Lynd termed the view that the middle class is the faith and hope of America as "just plain applesauce." Once this group was a powerful progressive force, but since the death of frontier democracy, the middle class has been crushed between the power of both "big business" and "big labor...
...titled "A discussion of the contemporary dilemma of American liberalism," Professor Lynd's speech is expected to maintain that this country's middle class is unable to take the lead in meeting the need for over-all democratic planning in American society...
Professor Lynd, co-author with his wife of the widely-known "Middletown" books and author of "Knowledge for What?" will elaborate on some of the ideas he presented to a Law School Forum last winter...