Word: marxianity
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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...
...complicated by Groucho's efforts to extract $10,000 from Mrs. Dukesbury (Margaret Dumont, stately stooge of the Marxes), a Newport dowager. Groucho, who has never seen Mrs. Dukes-bury before, barges into her boudoir, woos her with this Marxian dialectric: "Those June nights on the Riviera . . . and that night I drank champagne from your slipper -two quarts." The big scene is the party for the 400. "Judge Chanock," says Mrs. Dukesbury graciously, "will sit on my left hand, you (to Groucho) will sit on my right hand." "How will you eat," cracks Groucho, "through a tube...
...Marxism: "I have watched the tradition of Marxian bad manners and Marxian dogmatism wrapping like a blanket of fog round the minds of two crucial generations...