Word: marxists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chore Boy. Jake Lomakin began going places in 1939. He had graduated from a Moscow technical school as a "management engineer," had written articles on Marxist economy, and taken a course on how to become a foreign correspondent. In 1939, when he was 35, Jake was sent to New York as a Tass correspondent. Two years later he was made vice consul in New York City, and a year later, consul general in San Francisco...
Down with the Abdomen. All non-Marxist philosophies, said Kolman, are "fascist and imperialist." Jean Paul Sartre's existentialism is "a variety of sly apology for capitalism." (Fortunately there were no existentialists in the house.) The U.S., he continued, is trying to subject the world to economic bondage. "The world must fight the parasitical rapacious principle, the symbol of which is the abdomen, the worst enemy of the constructive principle, the symbols of which are human hands and brain...
...show that Soviet countries do not purge all those who disagree with Communism, Kolman pointed to Charles University's Jan B. Kozak, an avowed but browbeaten non-Marxist who had come to Amsterdam as an "innocent front" for Czechoslovakia's Marxist delegation. As Kolman spoke, the old professor turned his face away...
Ladislav Rieger, a member of the Communist "action committee" which had taken over the Czech universities, con tinued the battle for the "new humanism." When he finished, Germany's Walter Brugger remarked: "I see no difference between the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Naziism." A hurt, weary look appeared on Rieger's face. "Always the same confusion," he sighed...
...from the Bible and presenting something like a cari cature of [what] a Christian civilization stands for." This analysis permitted Lambeth to go beyond the Vatican's flat anti-Communist stand and concede that "in many lands there are Communists who are practicing Christians," i.e., who believe in Marxist economic interpretation but repudiate Marxist atheism. When a Soviet correspondent asked the Archbishop of Canterbury for examples of such "Christian Communists," he was silenced by Canterbury's reply: "The members of the Russian Orthodox Church in your own country." The Archbishop added, "Not all anti-Communist forces are necessarily...