Word: marxisms
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...been a member of the English faculty of New York University. Since she seldom discussed politics-never dragged them into her Chaucer classes-it never seemed to make any difference that she called herself a "Marxist." Last week Margaret Schlauch's friends remembered her quiet Marxism with a shock. Writing from Stockholm, she told N.Y.U. that instead of coming back she was taking a job at the Communist-dominated University of Warsaw...
...Marxism for Schoolchildren. Another terrorist tactic is to enter a school, cut the telephone wires, hold up the teacher, go into the classes, make fiery Communist speeches to the children, take away their identity cards and, after 20 minutes, skip. Identity cards have been issued because of The Emergency, and they apparently bother the terrorists, who are trying to break up the card system...
Asked his present ideological beliefs, he said, humbly, that he was "a student of Marxism." As he was led off to jail with the look of the martyr on his face, none of the comrades was around to note...
...depths as a World War I ambulance driver. He came back to a U.S. racked by social and economic change, threw himself into the defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Before long, like many another idealist of his generation, Dos Passos had plunged deep into the murk of Marxism. The murk slightly distorted his otherwise vivid, sprawling trilogy of 20th Century America, U.S.A., which remains his most notable contribution to U.S. writing...
Good reporter though he is, Cooke chooses to forget how few Americans were Communists even in the hungry '30s. Nor does he ever point up clearly the important difference between U.S. intellectuals who flirted with Marxism, and Communists who were committed to treason. His notion that the anti-Fascist climate of the '30s somehow establishes the need for present sympathy with traitors is charity gone wild and mars a fine journalistic performance...