Word: marxisms
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...idea, but also those who are doing the actual running of the extending government enterprises: in short, managers. These men include some of the clearest-headed of all managers to be found in any country. They are confident and aggressive. Though many of them have some background in Marxism, they have no faith in the masses of such a sort as to lead them to believe in the ideal of a free, classless society. At the same time, they are sometimes openly scornful of capitalists and capitalist ideas. They ... are not so squeamish as to insist that their words should...
Protestant liberalism is not alone in feeling the lash of its former leader. He also makes out a vigorous case against Catholicism, denounces Marxism as the false religion of the lower classes, Freudianism as the false religion of the upper crust, and Nietzschean fascism as the false religion of the lower middle classes...
...storm & strife of what Mexicans still refer to as "the revolution"-a confused and confusing mixture of banditry, adobe-hut Marxism, nationalism and agrarian reform which has been seething for 30 years-rose three great revolutionary artists. Their lurid propaganda paintings (reaching Mexico's illiterate peons far more effectively than printed words) covered walls from Nuevo Leon to Yucatan and revived the art of fresco painting on a scale unequaled since the Italian Renaissance. The three: stocky, effusive Diego Rivera; grim, brooding José Clemente Orozco; pallid, green-eyed, conspiratorial David Alfaro Siquieros...
...comrades, said Dr. Grebanier, met weekly in each other's homes,* discussed Marxism, united-front politics. Teachers Union affairs, how to vote in faculty elections. "It would be wrong to say," he explained, "that there was any deep-dyed plotting in these discussions." They also got reading assignments. Required reading: The Daily Worker, Life of Karl Marx, Earl Browder's Communism in the U. S. For dues ($25 a month), party literature, "Red Front" funds and the like, Dr. Grebanier shelled out $500 a year, more than 10% of his salary. On one occasion...
...years. Western culture of 1940 is at about the same stage of its life cycle as the Egyptian of 1600 B.C., Chinese of 250 B.C., Classical of 100 B.C. For proof Spengler waved his learned pointer at such diverse phenomena as Karnak's temples, Mozart quartets, Chinese gardening, Marxism, Aztec city planning, jazz, Greek vases, Napoleon, Russian grammar...