Word: marxisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crucifix on the classroom wall hang two poster-size diagrams of the Soviet state organization. With the classics of Communism before them (as well as Cominform publications and books from Moscow), the young priests gather around a big table to discuss, with dialectical zeal, the fine points of Marxism. Explains their instructor, former philosophy professor Canon Don Emilio Benavent...
Last week Kawarasaki had a new audience to flatter. In the presence of fire-eating Party Secretary Kyuichi Tokuda (who presumably had promised to foot the bills), Kawarasaki and 71 Zenshinza players joined the Communist Party. "After all," explained the ex-emancipator, "Lincolnism and Marxism are not exactly the same, but they have many similarities...
...bills were a smokescreen to take people's minds off unemployment and high utility rates," he added, pointing out that if he had his way he would make all investigators and bill passers take and pass examinations on Marxism, communism, and modern history...
...nobody had put the question of Communist professors any more plainly than New York University's Philosopher Sidney Hook. And Hook, a longtime student of Marxism, had found some plain answers, too. In this week's New York Times Magazine he wrote them down...
...disagreement with the decisions of any party organization . . . are grounds for expulsion." For detail, Hook quoted an official party organ (The Communist, May 1937): "Communist teachers must take advantage of their positions, without exposing themselves, to give their students . . . working-class education." They must be thoroughly grounded in "Marxism-Leninism . . . inject it into their teaching at the least risk of exposure and at the same time conduct struggles around the schools in a truly Bolshevik manner...