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Decrying the fact that no Harvard course is devoted to an exposition of the fundamentals of Marxism, the N. S. L. is forming a study group in which will be given an introduction to the scientific consideration of society from the Marxist standpoint...
...stern, von Papen flayed its muzzling of the Press, its meddling with religion, its encouragement of fanaticism and the drift toward radicalism of those Nazis who keep shouting for a Second Revolution. "Did we experience an anti-Marxist revolution," he barked, "only to carry out the program of Marxism...
...even such grave threats to his country's serenity President Masaryk does not allow to disturb the calm tenor of his daily life. Maintaining the burning interest in all varieties of subjects which has caused him to write books on everything from Hypnotism and Suicide to Marxism and the problem of small European nations, he still reads voluminously in four languages. He loves a brisk canter on horseback, or a romp with his small grandsons, children of Charles Revilliod, who only a few years ago used to play naked as jays in the gardens of the presidential summer palace...
...plea is for radical politics and religious conservatism, but he has not fallen into the facile synthesis which is becoming fashionable in our seminaries. He realizes that however close Christianity and Marxism may be in their fundamental assumptions and in their scale of values, the religious content of the one and the institutional weight of the other puts them at cross purposes. Both movements have been quick to follow the line of least resistance, but only in their agreement can a sane solution of our problems have the chance of survival...
...Niebuhr's survey of the breakdown of capitalism is able, and sometimes brilliant. But it does not contain the real body of his contribution to our political understanding. It is in his keen criticism of Marxism as a religion (for it is a religion, whatever its pretensions to pure science may be), and in his treatment of its relation, doctrinal and actual, to other and older religions that Dr. Niebuhr is on the most fruitful ground...