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Last year, after, reading Marx, Engels and Lenin, Haldane became a Marxist. The natural result of this was a book. The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences. which Author Haldane published last fort night.* He believes, as does many another, that Marxism is the most scientific of all political philosophies, draws many a parallel between the evolution of society and the evolution of science...
Some of these analogies are so much more obvious than brilliant that they will disappoint readers accustomed to the fire works of other Haldane writings. Whether or not a conversion to Marxism involves paralysis of the sense of humor, the au thor apparently decided that he could make the best impression with this book by assuming an air of grave reasonable ness. Despite this effort, many readers will find it less a proof of the scientific validity of Marxism than a collection of opinions on science and Marxism by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane...
...members of the Commitee signed the report immediately except Sen. Pat. McCarran, D., Nev., who asked Frankfurter pointedly whether he subscribes to the doctrines of Marxism and questioned him about his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union...
...asked the world to forget the rationalism of the past five hundred years and return to the philosophy of the thinkers of the Middle Ages. He declared that two of the evils resulting from our present rationalism are racism and Marxism, and assailed them as the principal anti-Christian powers at work in our world...
...Marxism, he claims it is an "unadulterated instance" of the doctrine of the self-sufficiency of man. "As for the humanism to which it invites us, the way in which revolutionary materialistic dialectic has lived for twenty years in the country it conquered, has devoured its leaders, reduced their morality to the end justifies the means, put to death or persecuted thousands of respected men--this is sufficient to edify us on that subject...