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Hartz spoke on "The Appeal of Marxism" in the fourth of five public lectures scheduled for the Summer School and open to the public...
...appeal of Marxism is its theoretical synthesis of certain conservative and liberal concepts," Louis Hartz, professor of Government, told an overflow audience in the Lamont Forum Room Thursday...
...administrator of Stalin's domestic and foreign policies was the NKVD,* a huge secret bureaucracy with absolute powers which grew out of Lenin's Extraordinary Commission (Cheka). The Cheka was a picked group of Bolshevik revolutionaries whose duty, during the 1918-1920 Civil War, was to instill Marxism in soldiers, workers and peasants and to liquidate anti-Bolshevik activity. Stalin made the NKVD the "inner temple" of Communism, and its dedicated, anonymous thousands of operators not only controlled the police, espionage, security and surveillance agencies, but by dominating innumerable inspection, control, auditing and credentials committees and commissions, reached...
Other highlights of Kinmond's series: there are many indications that the Chinese are weary of "a steady diet of dogmatism and Marxism." People react to party-line operas by "voting with their feet," i.e., staying away. Movies, almost the only entertainment most Chinese can afford (admission: 10?) are improved, thanks to a "trend away from the heavily propagandized production." In China's feverish attempt to educate its illiterate masses, schools are so crowded that students who finish one grade have to work on farms until there is room in the next...
...urging a stronger attempt to understand Communism, Conant described three steps, trying to envision the totalitarian state, trying to understand the schooling of members of the communist party, and trying to understand the tents of Marxism-Leninism...