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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...
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...
...beach the Britons saw a strange flag flying from a pole-a yellow field with vertical black stripes. The Amphion's pidgin-English interpreter asked the truculent islanders grouped around the flagpole what the flag stood for. It stood, said the natives, for "Martin Lo"-pidgin English for Marxian law. Communism had arrived among the atolls...
Planter Kuper reported that Communists had taken advantage of unemployment in the copra industry to incite the islanders. The movement, also called "Marching Rule" (Marxian Rule), was led by natives from Malaita Island, traditional headhunters who had been proselytized by Australian Communist servicemen. The Malaita agitators, according to Kuper, were in touch with a U.S.-organized Communist cell on Guadalcanal...
...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...