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...same meeting. Howard Zinn. who teaches a course with Cohn on Marxism and the New Left, attacked the "monarchical structure" of B.U. and told his audience that it was time "we start believing that this is our university...
...firm believer in both, and has been one of the foremost advocates of a Marxist-Christian dialogue. In attempting to reconcile the two, he applies Barth's lesson-"Whatever we say about God, it is men who say it"-to dialectical materialism. The humanism in both Christianity and Marxism, Garaudy believes, provides a meeting ground. He is the author of 22 books on subjects as diverse as Picasso and the Sino-Soviet dispute...
...delusions of science and scholarship, white society has lately and perhaps foolishly begun to discard such conceptions. But it takes shortness of memory or lack of imagination or both not to see that W. D. Fard's cyclical vision is hardly more farfetched than the mythology of Marxism, which also explains past horrors, justifies present conflict and assumes that the story will end in peaceful victory-when the state shall wither away. The millennial curve of Christianity from the Old Testament Genesis to a vaguely predicted Judgment Day offers similar encouragements...
Koestler's repudiation of Marxism can thus be seen as part of his general denial that history and politics have any claim on his inner life. For Merleau-Ponty suggests that Koestler's principles, "applied without compromise ... make it impossible to define a political position in the world as it is" ( Ibid., 174); If this is true, then Koestler's allegiances are an expression more of temperament and mood than of reasoned conviction, or self-interest. It now seems necessary for reasonable men to come to a political stance, even if their motive is to defend their inner lives against...
...with Stalin- would have been to acknowledge that a good Marxist can be wrong. And that would have made the correctness of Stalin's leadership a function of his political genius, and ultimately of the inexorability of his secret police. Such an acknowledgment would have been an admission that Marxism is not a "science of the future." And Stalinism it might be said, is what happens to Marxism when men pretend that it is a science of the future...