Word: marxians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West claimed a sizable victory when the major apparently heaved Marxian determinism overboard. "Every historical event," the powers agreed, "is a result of the interaction and interdependence of ... economic factors, political factors, cultural and social factors." Just how complete the victory would be, Berlin school children would learn next fall when their history books arrive. Each power will write texts for its own sector, then get the approval of the other powers...
Worship is a Christian's most important activity, says the statement, but social action comes second; and politics is social action's effective form. But the Christian is not aiming at a mere Marxian dream of material welfare; he desires "the maximum opportunity for the development of individual personalities...
...hungred and ye gave me meat"), the Socialist Christians state baldly that "the Labor Party has a good claim to be considered the Christian Party." They admit the existence of "probably a small minority" in the British Labor movement who, as Victorian rationalists or Marxian materialists, "reject the Christian idea of God." But the Labor
Lumping Socialism with Communism and calling it "Communism in swaddling clothes," Father O'Brien declared that there were four essentials in Marxian thought that made it impossible for a Communist to be a Christian, or vice versa...
...World Receded. In the 23 years since his death, as Editor Zabel says, "the world in which his tales are set has receded to historic distance and become, with its standards of honor and fidelity, a dimming memory in men's minds. . . ." Marxian critics have found him "exotic" because he failed to write of factories; a perennial kind of plain, impatient critic has found his preoccupations morbid. The stories assembled in this volume, and the longer novels, Victory, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes, make both these accusations seem as irrelevant as the "dating" of Conrad's work. Neither...