Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among them, such top U.S. Communists as National Secretary Gus Hall and General Secretary Eugene Dennis, who learned Marxist revolutionary techniques at Moscow's Lenin Institute...
...remembered that Karl Marx himself had said that the bourgeoisie had a language of its own. Lenin had made some remarks about the existence of separate cultures within the capitalist state, and Joseph Stalin declared that the bourgeoisie guided culture. On these slender foundations arose a whole school of Marxist philology. Its chief oracle was a philology professor called Nikolai Marr, the son of a Scottish father and a Georgian mother; he was 53 when the revolution broke out, but embraced Bolshevism with youthful fervor. Marr advocated the development of one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. Marr...
...Clarke asserts that Jesuit priests studying at Harvard were on the side of the University during the conflict. She says that these priests sat, "apparently unmoved, in the classes of atheists and Marxist sympathizers," and that after Father Feeney had censured them, they started "a crusade of persecution" against Father Feeney...
...past fortnight, Russian radio listeners have been getting the Marxist lowdown on U.S. radio and TV. In a series grimly entitled "The Mouthpiece of American Reaction," Soviet Announcer Lapin has been saying that "radio, which is the great discovery of a Russian genius, the mighty weapon of culture and progress, has been transformed in imperialist America into a hotbed of vulgarity and ignorance, into a tool of profitmaking, slander and deceit . . . It is poisoning the politically backward and uncultured people with the virus of chauvinism and militarism...
...think there is anything to say about me except that I am honest and anxious to see a decent world before I die." It is fairly certain that Harold Laski considered that wish unfulfilled by the world as it was when he died last week. Jeffersonian-Marxist Harold Laski, for all his brilliance, had never made it quite clear what he considered a decent world...