Word: marxisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could be sarcastically complimented by a party upstart-because he had learned the Moscow lesson too thoroughly. Of all the French leaders, he had the closest experience of Kremlin policy during World War II. He had been in Moscow when Stalin & Co. abandoned all but a vestige of Marxism in their propaganda and rallied the Russian people with outright Russian nationalism. Thorez, an apt pupil, tried the same line in France, with considerable political success. But the Kremlin views Communist nationalism as an unexportable commodity. It can be used only by the Kremlin bosses-and only in Russia...
...Burma, 42-year-old Socialist Premier Thakin Nu, who had translated How to Win Friends and Influence People into Burmese, was making new friends himself. He had already announced the expropriation of some British companies in Burma. Last week he called for abolition of capitalism, for the propagation of Marxism and friendship with Russia. Said Winston Churchill when he heard the news: Burma is "descending into a state of anarchy tempered by Communism." Later, assured that no outright Communists would be included in Burma's cabinet, the former "thakins" (masters) in London relaxed, but not much...
...resignation. Three days later, Virden, a quiet, capable Cleveland manufacturer who called himself "almost violently anti-atheist-Marxist," resigned. His dark-eyed daughter Euphemia was indeed employed by Tass, as a clerk and teletypist. An earnest, idealistic girl, she had gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden had declared it an "overt act," and had refused to communicate with...
...Centered. A social critic as well as a philosopher, Maritain applies Thomist principles to such contemporary phenomena as industrialism, modern art, anti-Semitism and communism. Aiming his attacks at both man-centered Marxism and capitalism, Maritain proposes a God-centered "Christian humanism." Says he: "God trains us through our disillusionments and mistakes to understand at last that we must believe only in Him and not in men, which places us in the proper position to marvel at ... all the good which [men] do in spite of themselves...
...reason why Veblen survives is that he was as skeptical of his friends as he was of his enemies. He distrusted both Marxism and capitalism, bankers and proletariat. In addition, he expressed his skepticism in a rough-hewn prose style which made him the most impressive American satirist...