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Throughout the political battles of half a century, the rallying cry of Britain's Labor Party has been the Marxist ideal of "social ownership of the means of production." Last week in Towards Equality, a slim, 31-page pamphlet prepared under the personal supervision of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, Labor sharply and radically changed its tune...
Making Explanations. What Togliatti demanded was a "Marxist" explanation of Stalinism, i.e., an explanation of particular events in terms of vast, impersonal historic forces. One such explanation-and the obvious one-for Stalin's rise to arbitrary power is the absence of checks and balances in the Communist system. Unable to concede this, Moscow's Central Committee offered an explanation which explained nothing: "The development of the personality cult was to an enormous extent contributed to by some individual traits of J. V. Stalin...
Foreign Communists everywhere, in their hour of distress, are crying for a "true Marxist analysis" of First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's sensational speech (TIME, June 11) at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party. Last week they got the beginnings of one from Marxist Pietro Nenni, leader of the Italian Red Socialist Party. It struck with shattering force into the foundations of the "back to Lenin" movement which Khrushchev, Tito et al. are promoting as a substitute for Stalinism...
...fact that the polemic on the cult of personality no longer makes sense." Why? Because it lacks "any historical reconstruction of the moment in which all power was transferred to Stalin." In Nenni's eyes, K is obviously a crude apparatchick incapable of making a proper "Marxist analysis." Asking how and why Stalin grabbed his despotic power, Nenni dismisses Khrushchev's explanation that Khrushchev and his gang "saw these problems in a different way at different times." Says Nenni: "This answer may be valid in a strictly personal sense. It is not valid for the Central Committee...
...Gogh lived 29 of his 36 years before he knew himself to be a painter. In a sense, the Outsider is a man waiting for his authentic vocation. But why does he turn in disgust from the "practical" house, wife-and children-minded world of his "bourgeois" (no Marxist connotations) fellow man? For Wilson, Nijinsky summed it up in his diary when he wrote: "The whole life of my wife and of all mankind is death." To Nijinsky and his fellow Outsiders, the average man is drifting on a tide of trivia, self-deception, automatic, day-to-day actions that...