Word: marxianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book falls into two almost exact halves, the first of which will interest only the economist who wishes to explore the complexities of Marx's thought down to its roots. The second part of the book, however, is the first effective treatment of the Marxian view of world history yet published. Dr. Sweezy is a convinced Marxist--the reader cannot escape that fact--but his thought is refreshingly free of the usual overtones of a commentator dangling at the end of Browder's tether. This volume is the work of a pure Marxian Socialist, not of a self-contradicting member...
Whether this book will "convert" many of its readers is quite another problem. Most of the stock counter-arguments to Marxian thought can be levelled against this, the most recent addition to the subject. The unrealistic division of modern society into two and only two classes, the distortion of culture into economics plus incidentals, and the ascription of cohesiveness to groups which are obviously not cohesive are all part and parcel of the development of Marxian analysis as it is presented in "The Theory of Capitalist Development...
...profit-yielding scarcity. Changing those institutions by consent instead of violence is possible when men's minds are accustomed to great transformations, but will be infinitely more difficult when post-war inertia and fatigue set in. This analysis of the conservative mind exemplifies magnificently the value of the Marxian approach when it is applied coolly rather than with emotionally supercharged hysteria...
...window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius; the Harold-Teenish manager of a drugstore; a crafty reporter (Allyn Joslyn); six lighthearted cadets from the Portuguese merchant marine. Eileen's global charms inspire the sailors to do a mass conga that lands her in jail. At last Sister Ruth's stories...
Died. Rev. Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel, 73, vicar of Thaxted, England, whose crusty championship of Marxian socialism had made his modest Essex vicarage a center of political and ecclesiastical turmoil since his appointment in 1910. Known as "the Red vicar," Father Noel once flew a red flag from his steeple, during World War I hung the green banner of the Irish Sinn Fein party near his pulpit, refused to permit the British Union Jack in his church...