Word: marxisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world reviled and caricatured the early Bolsheviks as bush-whiskered anarchists with a bomb in each hand. But Lenin, faced with hard facts and a war-beaten, superstitious, illiterate people, compromised with Marxism. Stalin, succeeding him, compromised still further, concentrated on building socialism in one state. Retained through the years of Russia's great upheaval was the basic conception that the ownership and operation of the means of production must be kept in the hands of the state...
...When at the command Left! Volunteer Morris (although an early attachment to King Arthur had gradually converted him to Marxism) always marched right...
Carr clearly saw the social revolution coming and believes that World War II is part of it. But his quiet, lucid revolutionary outlook upon the world of today is not hooked up with Communism. Indeed, British pinks sniff at Carr of the Times as a "self-appointed critic of Marxism...
Anton Drexler was a Munich locksmith who was unfit for service during World War I. He opposed trade unions, hated Marxism, believed that if Germany did not become mighty she would be ruined by international finance. In March 1918, he gathered 40 Germans into a Munich beer hall, formed the Committee of Independent Workmen. The next year they called themselves the German Workers' Party and Adolf Hitler was admitted as the seventh member of the inner cell. In 1920 the organization's name was again changed to the National Socialist German Workers' Party and Hitler began muscling...
...that Marshal Pétain might like to backtrack on collaboration, if he had the chance. But if the old Marshal was any less determined to make France a fascist-style totalitarian state, he did not say so. Instead, he said: "I do not want for my country either Marxism or liberal capitalism. The new order which is about to assume its place cannot be founded on anything but a severe internal order...