Word: marxianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while it is possible to be a Christian and a Communist, it is not possible to be a Christian and a Marxian Communist without disloyalty either to Christ or to Marx, for Marxian Communism is far more than a political or economic theory; it has a doctrine behind it which leaves no room for Christianity or for any other form of theism ... It is the most dangerous rival to Christianity...
...Archbishop said that it is "possible for Russian Christians to live quietly in a Marxian state, accepting its economic and political system, but rejecting its philosophical ideology." He did not try to answer the old and terrible question: How quietly can a Christian live...
With Zhebrak's capitulation, a debate that has gone on in Russia for over a decade came to an end. Henceforth, all vegetables, flowers and other plants in the U.S.S.R. will grow straight along the Marxian line. Under the vigorous influence of their Communist environment, they will cast off all Western bourgeois tendencies that might make them follow their heredity...
...Archbishop of Canterbury's London residence. They sat on hard wooden chairs (former conferences used comfort able armchairs and each bishop took home his chair as a memento). "There has nev er," commented the Manchester Guardian, "been a Lambeth Conference so free from princely affectation." "A Fearless Witness." "Marxian Communism ," the conferees declared, "is con trary to Christian faith and practice, for it denies the existence of God, Revelation and a future life; it treats the individual man as a means and not an end ; it encour ages class warfare . . ." But the headway made by Communism is in itself...
Judgments in Journalese. It takes a cool, mildly psychoanalytical, yet not quite Freudian view of the central character; it takes something of a doctrinaire, but not fully Marxian view of political events. It makes passing mention of the vices, mistresses and scandals of historic figures, as illustration of their human frailty...