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...principles. The question today is no longer whether to fight Communism-Americans have made up their minds about that-but how to fight it. The best hope of the party today is that the U.S. will be guided by a kind of empty anti-Communism which misunderstands the enemy ("Marxism is not so bad; it's just Stalinism that's dangerous"), or underestimates him ("The only way to fight Communism is to feed the hungry"), or divides the U.S. from its allies, or denies, in the name of democracy, democracy's right to protect itself. The party...
...sins by providing a home in exile for Leon Trotsky, made his third formal appeal to be taken back into the fold. He had been, said Rivera, "a coward, traitor, counterrevolutionary, abject degenerate" who would, if given another chance, pledge his art and reputation to the sole service of "Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism," the "only just and true political line...
...were killed in an earthquake and began his study of philosophy. A lifelong agnostic, he believed that the supernatural is no concern of the philosopher ("Man can only know that which he has experienced"), held that philosophy is no more than a method of history. He flirted briefly with Marxism, later with Fascism, quickly rejected both ("to assert that liberty is dead is the same as saying that life is dead"). When Mussolini came to power, Croce retired to Naples, where he waited out the course of Fascism, constantly badgered Mussolini in his magazine La Critica. Il Duce never dared...
...Blasted Marxism...
Polanyi recently published a collection of essays. "The Logic of Liberty," in which he sharply criticizes subordinating science to Marxism. He was one of the founders of the Society for Freedom in Science which flourished in England during the '30's and early '40's. In 1949 Princeton awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science Degree. The citation called him "a veteran campaigner against those who would take from science the freedom she requires for the pursuit of truth...