Word: marxianism
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...Bureau's most exasperating job is digesting Communist newspapers, "literature" and broadcasts, with their wearisome load of Marxian cliches. Even the fine print must be studied, for it often tells the story which the headlines are designed to hide. For instance, Neville read a maze of Marxian dialectic about the Reds' wonderful social security system ("second only to Soviet Russia's") before he found the catch: the scheme applied only to an insignificant number of workers and even for them it would be delayed...
...then "Trotskyite" was a dirty word among orthodox Communists, but small bands of followers in many countries, grandly calling themselves the "Fourth International," remained faithful to Trotsky, claiming that he alone had preached the old Marxian gospel. One of the largest of the Trotskyite groups: the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. Natalia appointed herself guardian of the true word and, like a medium, held forth on what Trotsky would say on various issues were he alive...
...combines economies, mathematics, and physics, studied none of these as an undergraduate. Instead, as Professor Perry Miller recalls, "He was in Government, ostensibly, but he used to do all the work for History and Lit. They could have given him two degrees." Goodwin wrote his thesis on Marxian theory, and graduated in 1934 with a degree summa cum laude and a Rhodes scholarship...
...Toronto last week, Sir Senegal Rau, India's U.N. representative, gave newsmen his views on China. The government of "New China," he said, is a "coalition" of Communists and "other parties," and its chief concern is improving conditions in the country. While it does have a "Marxian bias," it is trying to complete its "democratic revolution." Concluded Rau: The present government "is the best China has had in centuries...
Marr, who advocated one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. From long experience Vishniak sat back to see which way the Marxian doctrinal ax would fall. His vigilance was rewarded by an 8,000-word blockbuster in Pravda from Stalin himself, demolishing the "false" foundations of the Marr theory and setting everybody straight. It also made a story for TIME'S July 3 issue-and another example of the editors' continuing attempt to convey the ways of the Soviet to TIME'S readers...