Word: marxisms
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...alienate the army, which reportedly is already suspicious of his faith in peaceful coexistence. Khrushchev is inextricably committed to butter as well as guns, sirloin as well as sputniks. He has long since staked his political survival on raising Russian living standards, and last week even declared approvingly that Marxism-Leninism, like U.S. capitalism, will eventually lead to the "affluent" society.* Diehard Stalinists, notably China's leaders, deplore Khrushchev's emphasis on material comforts-in his own words, "presenting Communism as a table groaning with tasty dishes." But, reasoned Nikita Khrushchev, "the preaching of equality in the spirit...
...years to come. It is perhaps Communism's greatest failure that nowhere has it satisfied man's most fundamental demand in life, to be properly fed. Throughout the Communist empire, from Castro's Cuba to Mao's China, breadline societies are an inevitable result of Marxism's ingrained distrust of the peasantry and its insistence on headlong industrialization...
...instances of Dreiser and Dos Passos show, they were not able to make any cultural use of their pre-eminence. The American intelligentsia turned left in the grim years between '28 and '32, but the Party was never able to adapt itself to it. It was not simply that Marxism produced no literary criticism worth printing, though that was true enough; but even the social criticism of the American Left during the '30's came from men like Parrington, Beard, and Veblen, rather than from Marx. And Aaron's sketch of a figure like Edmund Wilson shows...
...true neurotic blood and fire, a daydream of homosexual figures in graceful gowns moving archaically among the lilies. Or his description of Archibald MacLeish: a "white collar fascist out of Harvard and Wall Street." But they were mostly as dreary as the proletarian novelists they praised so excessively. Marxism's direct cultural impact on America was slight, and is mercifully forgotten...
...other organization will be a reincarnation of the Harvard Socialist Club, which died of apathy in 1960. Its new founder, Joseph F. Knowles '65, said yesterday that he considers present Russian communism "a corruption of Marxism," but added, "I am coming into a much greater appreciation of Lenin." He said his group might affiliate with the Young Socialist Alliance...