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...heartening to know that Reinhold Niebuhr not only has at last seen the evils of Marxism but has been man enough to confess it [TIME, Aug. 24]. On the other hand, the harm he has done to the American Protestant clergy is incalculable, for not only is he the key man at Union Theological Seminary, but the outstanding leader in the revival of theology in most of our denominations. Thousands of ministers have been soft toward Communism because of their own Marxist illusions. It is to be hoped that many of them will now follow Dr. Niebuhr in his repentance...
...inherited from the 19th century, and against certain economic injustices that happened under capitalism. But, he now acknowledges, 'those of us who were critical of capitalism were ... too uncritical of the Marxist alternative." This was true, says Niebuhr, even of those who "rejected the Communist version of Marxism" and sought "democratic Marxism." Niebuhr is 'ready to confess to his complicity in these errors," but is still against "the ridiculous dogma of laissez faire...
...letter to the Manchester Guardian Weekly, Clark wrote: "What happened in the 1930s was that a substantial element among the university population and among authors and literary critics adopted Marxism. And what we are witnessing now is the complete discrediting of Marxism in all its forms-Bolshevik or Menshevik, extreme or moderate, academic or practical. And with this obstacle removed, the group who used to be called 'the intellectuals' quite naturally resume their proper position in the [British] national life as men who can influence, but not dominate, the development of the public taste and the course...
...This appears to be the happy development of events in Britain, but is far from true, alas, in the U.S. or the British Commonwealth countries, where academic Marxism-or crypto-Marxism-is stronger than ever. The almost unbearable tension in American academic and civil-service life at the present time springs from the intransigence of Senator McCarthy on the one hand, but on the other hand from the widespread adherence, amongst the younger university men in America, to the monstrous falsehood (and to the belief in a totalitarian state, which it implies) that all human actions, political, cultural or religious...
...comments on Gnosticism and ancient-world Catholicism by TIME and Dr. Voegelin are unnecessarily pedantic. Gnosticism and Catholicism were to ancient Christianity what Trotskyism and Stalinism are to today's Marxism. And just as orthodox Catholicism defeated Gnosticism in the ancient ideological battle, so did Stalinism defeat Trotskyism in the modern one; while the result in both instances was that the victorious doctrine became orthodox, its leaders and followers in political control of their areas, while the ousted ideology became heretic (or "deviationist," to use the mildest Kremlin term), its leaders and followers subject to official persecution, banishment, execution...