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...college age were unemployed, and to many, the Soviet system seemed the only solution to their troubles. At the height of the depression, in 1932, a small group of students met in Leverett House D-41 and formed the John Reed Club. Devoted to the study of "scientific Marxism" and to education, the Reed Club was strictly intellectual and comparatively tame. In fact, it might never have attracted attention had it not immortalized by Norman Mailer '37 in one of his flashbacks in "The Naked and the Dead...
...that Christianity cannot be static but must be in a state of holy flux . . . [They] hold it as only natural ... to remove antiquated forms and look for new ones." ¶"Without being a follower of dialectical materialism, the Christian must recognize as correct the foundation of economic analysis in Marxism and Leninism." ¶"Socialism today gives the Christian the best chance to fulfill the aims of Christ and to practice practical Christianity. The doctrine developed by Karl Marx for the erection of a better social order found exemplary realization in the socialist Soviet Union...
...There are other things more seriously lacking in the curriculum--as, for example, a professional guidance system or faculty proponents of Marxism or progressive views," Beveridge said, summing up the Y.P. argument...
...Substitute Faith: "It is really quite surprising to see how much the practice as well as the theory of Marxism presents a secularized form of Christianity . . . the quality of regret for deviations approaches genuine penitence...
Indoctrination: "In the elementary and secondary schools there is no systematic indoctrination in Marxism, although, of course, the teachers have it always in mind. On the university level it must be taught, and the Prague theological faculty is the only higher school which is free to teach another philosophy than Marxism. There are difficulties, of course, and some minor officials and minor party members are more suspicious and intolerant than others. But there has been nothing like forced confessions...