Word: marxiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent most of his 84 years tugging at America's lapels, beseeching it to share his vision of better things. Goad and gadfly to his country's conscience, he espoused a variety of socialism that was questioning rather than doctrinaire, Christian rather than Marxist, democratic rather than totalitarian. Much of what he sought in social welfare legislation was eventually adopted by those who once recoiled from his proposals. "The ultimate token of approval," he said with rueful satisfaction, "is that the Democrats and Republicans have stolen my thunder." Son of a Presbyterian minister, valedictorian of Princeton...
...Governor in 1926 and 1930. He switched to the Democrats and won their nomination for Governor in the 1934 primary by 436,000 votes. His EPIC platform-End Poverty in California-was probably as radical as that of any major party in U.S. history: applying Marxist theory, he proposed to turn over to the workers some of the means of production-in this case, California's Depression-idled farms and factories. Led by the Los Angeles Times, his alarmed opposition charged that Sinclair planned to Sovietize the state and nationalize children. Despite the scare campaign against him, he came...
...traditional radical approach to this situation is the Marxist one of plumping for the aim of mobilizing these workers to overwhelm the power of the Rich by sheer weight of numbers. This was to be done by explaining to the workers that their interests were not being looked after in the prevailing state of affairs, which realization supposedly would so enrage the working class that they would do something about redressing the situation...
Ultimately, of course, this strategy depends, just as inevitably as the Marxist, on the third means of acquiring power, that of Numbers, since the other means are not permissible. Thus one has to wait until enough people have been converted to the new faith which means a long wait...
...community so conservative that its newsstands refused to sell copies of LIFE and Look when they carried features on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution last fall. Some students confronted Johns at a convocation last spring, charged that he and many of the new teachers were promoting Marxist philosophy and inciting opposition to the Viet Nam war. One undergraduate group began a drive to impeach...