Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specifying the nature of the menace, Mr. Lewis, a former Republican, offered as sweeping an indictment of capitalist economy as has ever come from a labor leader who is not an avowed Marxist. "We do not intend that our children shall starve in the midst of plenty," is the familiar Leftist battle cry which the C. I. 0. chief raised last week. "Hundreds of thousands of the people of this nation have for years on years been exploited, oppressed and denied the exercise of those rights guaranteed to them under our Constitution. . . . They have been little more than industrial serfs...
After hearing Professor Dirk J. Stuick, of M.I.T. explain the relation of Marxism to science, the John Reed Society broke wide open just as compromise was in sight on allowing non-Marxist talks to be heard...
...Marxists elected as secretary Edward H. Brown '41, as vice-president Rosenbaum 1G, and as president Goldman '39. The non-Marxist faction elected to its executive committee William I. Ingraham '38 and Warner Shippee...
...violent disposition toward indefinite, purposeless expansion." What is implied here is the problematical contrast between absolutism's quest of glory and aggrandizement as an end in itself and the rationally oriented calculus of bourgeois capitalism. Such encomium of the profit motive strikes me as no more realistic than the Marxist interpretation of imperialism...
...assumed that over to them would go most troops of Spain's regular Army, but assorted Leftist political groups began drilling and equipping little armies or militias of their own: the C.N.T. (National Confederation of Labor); U.G.T. (General Union of Labor); F.A.I. (Iberian Anarchist Federation); the P.O.U.M. (United Marxist Party); etc., etc. Among the most colorful was the "Batallón de los Figaros," a battalion composed entirely of barbers and hairdressers which later did yeoman service. Two nights after the Rightists first rose in arms, new Leftist Premier Jose Giral opened the jails and distributed truckloads of rifles...