Word: manifestoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said its staff-written manifesto this week...
...years since Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto espoused "an open, legalized community of women," few subjects have been more frequently disputed by Marxists. Lenin, in one of his sharpest departures from Marxism, vehemently rejected "free love" on the ground that "love is more than drinking a glass of water." But Alexandra Kollontay, who instituted the Soviet system of easy divorce in 1917, was called "Russia's only real Communist" because of her advocacy of free love
...lucid account of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto [TIME, Feb. 23], I offer my congratulations. . . . Nothing can forestall Communists' inroads in starving countries unless awakened American officials answer the Manifesto's challenge...
...power who rule Russia and all Communist parties throughout the world. Against them stands capitalist democracy, which has certainly not fulfilled the shiny, steam-driven dreams of some of its early prophets. There is no need, however, for capitalism to cringe silently beneath the Marxist indictment. The Communist Manifesto made better reading before Marxism had been tried. Capitalism, for all the regimentation and degradation that occasionally went with it, has made a compromise with The Machine which is, on the record, superior to the Marxist compromise with human nature. Capitalism does not get all it can out of The Machine...
That story summarized Marxism's challenge. For Marxism offered both reason and faith, both bread and miracles. Sharp ears this week could hear Karl Marx laugh quietly to himself on the Manifesto's birthday. The bourgeois, forgetting their own accomplishments, were remembering his carbuncles. "Yours forever," the old man seemed to say, "Yours forever, Dr. Crankley...