Word: marxist
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Will it survive in the next? The full weight of the state is brought to bear on every twig, to bend it into a Communist attitude. The Marxist interpretation colors every subject that is taught in school, and after school the children are marshaled in youth battalions and kept too busy to think anything but what they are told to think. To gain its end. the state plays ruthlessly upon the natural ambitions of the young: boys and girls are warned that if they do not conform they will be denied admission to college...
...great obscenity of politics decelerated Brecht's impact upmodern theater, and yet few seri critics, East or West, deplore fact that the playwright stooped elf in Marxist philosophy. For, ily, Answers in Brecht's plays second place to Questions, and ctical training provided him with a needed technique for ironically confronting reality. The intense study of Marxism which he undertook in the late 20's, imparted an intellectual discipline to his outlook and to his style...
...strong had his awareness of human self-abasement been, so deep had his bitterness run, that only the theory of inevitable social progress offered him a real alternative to nihilistic despair. This entrance to Marxist belief is illuminating when contrasted with the conversion of other leftist intellectuals of the period, many of whom saw in Socialism an outlet for idealistic views of human potential. Howard Fast, for example, upon leaving the Communist party in 1956, denounced it in a book called The Naked God. The title succinctly sums up Fast's attitude of worship, hic communism of illusion, an attitude...
...savagery of In the Swamp and A Man's a Man was channeled into new streams as the Marxist discipline influenced his style. The violent attack on human nature in general was deflected toward a criticism of class-structured society, and he began to set forth the clash upon which all humor is based as a reflection of the planet's dialectical twisting. He urged...
...purges. Even with its patchy, rewritten last chapter - the hero is now killed by White counter-revolutionists - Harvest on the Don is an extraordinary book to come officially from Russia. It is frankly critical of much in Soviet life, and sings with a kind of individualism obviously incompatible with Marxist philosophy...