Word: marxianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good-humored, large and shrewd, Ameringer's story does not idealize the proletariat, rings in no abstruse Marxian patter, no unbuttoned revolutionary blab. He makes a roaring farce out of the campaign of the poor to elect picturesque Jack Walton to the Governorship of Oklahoma; after election, the man of the people took to plus fours and golf with oil magnates...
Immoderate and humorless as Marxian sectarian journalists, as human beings the Partisan Review editors are an eager, uneven, engaging crew. Happiest when criticizing critics, capitalizing on capitalists and declaring war on "Imperialist War," they are almost as happy when they can snag a literary lion. Of these they have snagged a pride, from Apostle Trotsky himself to such international camelo-pards as Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein. Latest catch is Poet T. S. Eliot's new, beautiful, 200-line poem for the current May-June issue...
After some dandyism, café girls and card-playing, rediscovered God in The Masses. Active in 1905-07 Revolution. Jailed three months with seven revolutionists condemned to death; learned much. In Dostoevskian-Marxian appetite for poverty lived among the lowliest in Odessa...
Dangerous Thoughts shows U. S. readers the impertinent Hogben intelligence at work in a set of 15 cocky, popularly scientific essays. Two pieces give the blat to Marxian dogmatists, to the theory of the "inevitability" of class war; advise Socialists to realize the importance of the skilled, salaried worker, to bring themselves up to date on technology. Other blats: the scientific ignorance of statesmen; liberal "unbias"; any front against fascism which does not take full cognizance of science; economics as an "exact" science; "humane or gentlemanly" knowledge as against "useful or scientific" knowledge...
...last week it seemed that The Nation after 75 years had passed its radical peak, was headed back toward Godkin. Wrote Max Lerner in a survey of U. S. reform: ". . . Marxian influence . . . led to an ac cent on faith which . . . could result only in a drastic disillusionment. . . . The only possible focus for an American Left is America. . . . We must re-examine Marxism...