Word: marxist
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...classes at M.I.T., few Americans had ever heard of Dirk J. Struik when his name first appeared in the news two years ago. He was a mousy-looking mathematician who had come to the U.S. from Holland in 1926, the author of half a dozen learned tomes, and a Marxist lecturer of note in Mexico, The Netherlands and the U.S.S.R. But by last week M.I.T.'s Professor Dirk Struik (pronounced strouk), was considerably better known in his adopted land. He was the center of a Boston dust-up that involved both scholars and churchmen...
...newsmen in Boston he flatly denied party membership: "I try to be a Marxist in the broadest sense." But when he was later summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Struik stood on his constitutional privileges against selfincrimination, and refused to say whether or not he was a member of the Communist Party...
...this week the Struik Defense Committee had a nationwide fund-raising campaign going. Marxist Struik would apparently have plenty of support when he finally comes to trial early next year...
Later, he insisted that he was a Marxist, and not a Communist...
...that President Conant and those who agree with him no longer believe in Mill's theory: viz, that society, when presented with all the possible view-points on a problem will in the long run choose that which is nearest the truth.... Though I do not advocate it, the Marxist theory will still be in existence and will continue to compete with other ideas for public acceptance regardless of whether there are Communist teachers or not; the reason why they should not teach is a completely different question which has been basically answered by the above quotations from Mill. Harold...