Word: marxianity
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...Washington correspondence, drawling, Pulitzer Prizewinner Thomas Lunsford Stokes has built a reputation much like that of his onetime boss and friend, the late Raymond Clapper. Washington knew him to be, like Clapper, a hard digger, a writer whose prose has no wings, a liberal whose roots are not Marxian but native. Stokes is also a man with a merciless conscience: by sympathy a New Dealer from the start, he won his Pulitzer Prize by exposing a WPA vote-getting machine in Senator Alben Barkley's Kentucky...
...into a "counterrevolutionary foreign policy" by drumming up the dangers of the U.S.S.R. Author Adamic himself sees the U.S.S.R. as no particular danger to anyone. He considers it the source of "a new dynamism toward general welfare" rather than of the old dynamism of Pan-Slavic hopes and the Marxian dream...
Professor Northrop's analysis of Russia faces the fact of Communist success: of the deliberate, swift and powerful application of a philosophy, Marx's, in human history. The Marxian dialectic was too rigid for the facts. But at least "it was high time that economic and political theory . . . treated man as a creature with a body, having continuous energy requirements in the form of food to maintain even his human existence...
...briefly in '43, but the magazine, announced as a quarterly, appeared only once. With its revival last term the Society attracted better than a hundred people--a proportion of which come mostly out of curiosity, according to an official of the Society--at open discussions and study groups on Marxian philosophy...
...which, says Lysenko, is nonsense. Heredity, he believes, changes spontaneously-and can be changed artificially. His key chapter has the thundering Marxian title "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms." He explains that a plant variety often gets into a rut. Thus, it tries to produce descendants exactly like itself. But buried in its germ plasm are characteristics which have been suppressed because they did not benefit the plant in its accustomed environment. All that is needed to bring these buried characteristics to light is to "liquidate the plant's conservatism...