Word: marxisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely the familiar polemical device of building 'em up before knocking 'em down. He had used this technique on Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte, Hegel. But he had also been found guilty of playing with metaphysics, a reprehensible sin in Russia, and he had depicted Marxism as an evolution from earlier philosophy. Thundered Zhdanov: "The origin of Marxism was a real discovery, a revolution in philosophy." In the wake of Zhdanov's thunder, 46 of Aleksandrov's colleagues and coworkers, among them doubtless some who had written rave reviews, slavishly climbed the Zhdanov bandwagon with similar...
Those who reverently place wreaths beneath Garibaldi's memorial and those who kneel before the Virgin-many citizens do both-have long lived together in drowsy tolerance. But now, the heirs of Garibaldi are tainted with Marxism...
...affect the national weal than their counterparts at Sears Roebuck's. Even if a good percentage of them were Muscovite zealots, they could still be no more effective than their fellow employees' morale allowed. The Presidential and Republican pretense that the more exposure of Federal workers to such employees' Marxism means automatic conversion, is something less than believable. The question here is academic, of course, because few modern Communists publicize their affiliations. This evasion has provided a field day for the witch hunters, who now define a Communist as anyone who is friendly with anyone who is a Communist...
Even the efforts to fight Marxism with its own weapons have inevitably taken a Marxist turn. Both Naziism and Fascism, Biographer Schwarzschild points out, are Marxist mutations whose predestined political form is therefore the police state. In Nazi concentration camps, as in Russian forced-labor camps, Karl Marx was the presiding genius. In the name of human progress, Marx has probably caused more death, misery, degradation and despair than any man who ever lived...
...always wrong; 4) a self-styled "scientific" socialist whose science was about as scientific as astrology; 5) an economist whose economic knowledge was perfunctory and puerile. Marx's mind was undoubtedly diabolic (history is studded with malign political geniuses). But it is no help in understanding or combating Marxism to deny its author's perverse brilliance...