Word: marxisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: According to your Books department (TIME, May 17) Professors James Burnham and Sidney Hook, top-ranking specialists on Marxism, are now "concerned with the question of whether democracy, in the sense of government by the people, is possible...
...citizens most learned in Marxism and most concerned about its failures to date are Professors James Burnham and Sidney Hook, colleagues in philosophy at New York University. Now that Marxist efforts toward a society of free and equal men seem to have been sidetracked, both men are concerned with the question of whether democracy, in the sense of government by the people, is possible...
Democracy Is Difficult. Professor Sidney Hook, unlike Professor Burnham, has not turned his back on Marxism...
...thinks that Marxism should be revised and extended, not abandoned. And he thinks that democracy is not impossible, but difficult...
...author must, however, be heartily congratulated on his accomplishment. Describing and condensing any scheme of thought is enormously difficult, and Dr. Sweezy has boiled Marxism down to its essential elements without losing its unique flavor...