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...Invisible Writing, by Arthur Koestler. A brilliant travelogue (the second volume of his autobiography) describing the famous ex-Communist's journey through and out of the Marxist hell (TIME...
...famed philosopher, Paul Weiss Martin Buber secured him a position as Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the following year. Taubes found that his course on Hegel and Marx was violently controversial in Jerusalem, for a group of remarkably well trained Marxist debaters was in the student body, and the left-wing press soon began to attack him. But Taubes had to admit that the Communists in Israel have a uniquely trained cabal of students who excel both in study and in debate...
Both faculty and students seem to have absorbed a large measure of this spirit. When a popular Cornell faculty member, Marcus Singer, was cited for contempt by a Congressional committee for refusing to name his associates in a pre-war Marxist study group at Harvard, both faculty and student groups defended him. The faculty of Arts and Sciences unanimously expressed its faith in his loyalty and the Student Council added its support for his moral position...
Fleming, who joined the Army as a private in 1942, went to Korea in 1950, spent 50 days in combat and 34 months in prison camps. According to Army witnesses, he was elected camp leader "because he seemed to have gotten along O.K." with the Reds: he led Marxist study groups, made Red propaganda recordings, and mouthed the Communist line about "the imperialistic, capitalistic Wall Street warmongers...
Although Dunham, according to Sawyer, "quit the Communist around 1946," in 1947 he wrote a book, "Man Against Myth--an analysis of social superstitions," which the New York Times Book Review called a distortion of "history to fit the Procrustean bed of his Marxist convictions...