Word: marxisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more difficult, exciting-and welcome-than the innocent simplicity of 1923 foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
Reinhold Niebuhr's new orthodoxy is the oldtime religion put through the intellectual wringer. It is a re-examination of orthodoxy for an age dominated by such trends as rationalism, liberalism, Marxism, fascism, idealism and the idea of progress...
Niebuhr never does. For example, he has always been the leading liberal opponent of pacifism. In that period before we got into the war when pacifism was popular, he held out against it steadfastly." He is also an opponent of Marxism...
...image is necessarily dim. Unitary man, conceiving himself a part of nature, rejoices in it, and gives himself unhesitatingly to life, with no thought of the survival of his own immortal soul. Of Christianity, humanism, and Marxism, he automatically preserves whatever is proper to his nature. When Author Whyte wrote the book he thought that Russia had perhaps gone farthest in the direction of a unitary society. Since that time, he says in the preface, he has concluded differently: "World order implies a unity tolerant of diversity; truth, justice, and the welfare of man depend on individuals with the courage...
That story summarized Marxism's challenge. For Marxism offered both reason and faith, both bread and miracles. Sharp ears this week could hear Karl Marx laugh quietly to himself on the Manifesto's birthday. The bourgeois, forgetting their own accomplishments, were remembering his carbuncles. "Yours forever," the old man seemed to say, "Yours forever, Dr. Crankley...