Word: marxisms
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Biographer Schwarzschild is no admirer of Marx or Marxism. He is pointing to the fact that since World War I no other mind has so potently influenced the political and economic thinking and action of our times. There are masses of unconscious Marxists-men & women who have never read Marx's Capital, and who would rather be found dead than reading the Communist Manifesto, but whose thinking about the role of economic forces in history, the responsibility of government for the individual, and the importance of economic security v. political freedom has nevertheless been profoundly influenced by the choleric...
Though he adopted some of the analyses of Marxism, Chesterton's ideal pattern for society lay not in the future (with the dictatorship of the proletariat) but in the past. In the Middle Ages, said he, men inhabited "a world more wonderful than the eyes of men have looked on before or after . . . and saw St. Francis walking with his halo a cloud of birds...
Marx's theory on evolution is just as applicable to primitive societies as it is to advanced ones, Bernhard J. Sterm told the John Reed Society's final forum on Marxism and Modern Thought last night...
Presbyterian Miller believes that Karl Marx provided some knowledge that is necessary to effective action. Says he: "Marxism is an indispensable key to history. Its essential doctrines stand, and the contemporary process of social change is inexplicable without taking account of them. It is a scientific sociology...
Author-editor Bernard J. Stern will conclude the John Reed Society's series of discussions on Marxism and Modern Thought tonight with an address on "The Concept of Social Evolution Today," in Harvard Hall 1 at 8 o'clock...