Word: marxianism
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...Chinese Apache dance by Miss Cecile D'Andrea and Harry Walters is the other non-Marxian bright spot of the play, the first one being-not in the 'order of appearance the Tragedy of Gambling, by a talented ensemble. With a descriptive setting from Limehouse and dance-steps from the Boul' Miche, the act carries on the Charlotian tradition most creditably...
...Junker class left over by the war. They want revenge and a return to military monarchy. Then on the left wing are the Socialists, who stand for reform legislation, labor laws, and international friendship. They correspond in their ideals to your Progressive party and are not at all Marxian in their beliefs. Last of all are the Republicans, the party of the Bourgeoisie, who usually support the Socialists...
...disappointed. The story of the great Marxian's creation of the Bolshevist Party, of his tremendous single-handed fight to swing its other leaders to his extreme radicalism, and of his leadership of the party through his long years of exile in Siberia, during the war, in Switzerland, and back to Russia, where he overthrew the provisional government of Kerensky and negotiated the now famous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, is all narrated in a vivid and convincing manner. The author gives Lenin's political career in full, quoting dozens of records and letters and telling scores of illuminating anecdotes...
...Levine agrees with Sukhanov, whom he quotes, that Lenin was a genius. Although the man had "an extremely limited mental horizon", having made up his mind at the age of twenty-three to adhere to the Marxian principles, he was "uncommonly potent and prolitic within these limitations. He was a rare combination of a doctrinaire, a statesman, and a popular leader; he was both visionary and practical...
...Bolshevik critics attacked both authors from a purely Marxian viewpoint, but were harsher to Lunacharsky than to Shakespeare. They thought Shakespeare's play was capable of "'proletarian" interpretation, though as produced in Moscow, gave a "disgusting, vulgar, ignorant, bloodthirsty" effect...