Word: marxianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stripped of its religious appeal and its call for a revival of faith, the platform of the Church sounds suspiciously like that endorsed by a good many liberals and leftists since pre-Marxian days. The suggestion that extreme inequalities of wealth, and private ownership of the means of production, may be bars between our present world and "a just order of society" is still the same when it is placed on a moral basis as when it is treated from an economic standpoint. The proposals that the proper purpose of work is the satisfaction of human needs and that labor...
...Marx brought to this crusade a stupendous knowledge of Hegelian philosophy, a brilliant economic mind, trenchant political discernment, a complete inability to earn a living, a perfect willingness to let Friend Engels earn one for him. Marx was also one of the most vituperative geniuses who ever lived. Favorite Marxian epithets for friends and foes alike: Dog! Bedbug! Swine! Pot! Blockhead! Cow! Says Author Wilson: "As the years go on, the word Esel (jackass) seems almost to become synonymous with human being...
...insistence on the dignity of man runs counter to the totalitarian belief that man was made for the State, and its decline has aided the dictatorships. Last week the scientists took a step toward the Church's view, with their fellow delegates condemned the gods of Marxian economic determinism and Fascist racism and nationalism. They proclaimed: "The conference was unanimous in its conviction that modem civilization can only be preserved by a recognition of the supreme worth and moral responsibility of the individual human person...
...intellectual force to sap his generation's faith in education, the church, the state? Cousin Lytton had knocked the notions of pre-Communist intellectuals into a half-cocked hat so successfully that Cousin John had only to pick up the pieces and fit them together according to the Marxian blueprint...
...only they could attain the noble ideals of Marxian theory." Of his two years in World War I he never cared to talk; the thought of the far greater sufferings of others always shamed...