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...sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science and economics at five universities, worked as a farm laborer, factory hand, restaurant waiter, and nearly starved between times. At Wisconsin, an American professor helped convert the earnest young Indian to Marxism, and he went back to India snorting for action...
...trade-union work, Narayan observed with sorrow how the Communists bored from within, how they ditched the Socialists when the party line changed. Young zealots reproached him for turning toward religion, away from Marxism. Narayan answered: "I was once a Communist. I have watched the Soviet experiment with anguish. If you want to establish a totalitarian state in the name of Socialism, you might do so. But I will not be a party...
...prestige, power and patronage. Today a good Tito Communist is expected not only to tread the delicate ideological line between Russian Stalinism and Western capitalism, but to spend a good part of his time attending ward meetings, canvassing his neighbors like a Tammany heeler, doing his homework in Marxism and paying party dues that range up to 3% of his wages...
...Sunday band concerts, Soviet propagandists assembled a group of potential German apprentices-army generals, Nazi Party officials, and promising young intellectuals. They held especially high hopes for a wiry little Medical Corps orderly named Helmut Gollwitzer, for Gollwitzer looked like just the man to tell pious East Germans that Marxism was simply another brand of 20th century Christianity...
Just before the election, India's national Communist Party modified its tactics "to suit the circumstances of Gandhian India," just as Mao Tse-tung "adopted Marxism to the China of Confucius." The party's new commandments: 1) reject violence, pay lip service to Gandhian ideals, and concentrate on land reform; 2) court the middle class and the Socialists. The Communists scored a notable victory when Travancore's democratic Socialists agreed to join them for this election, in the classic, naive belief "that we shall call the tune." Last week Nehru re served his heaviest fire for this...