Word: marxists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more vigilant and hospitable." When Editor Croly died in 1930, his paper went from bluestocking to parlor pink, and his galaxy of talent flew apart. Often, under Bruce Bliven, the NR was peas-in-a-pod with the Nation and, for a brief period (1935), it adhered to a Marxist line.* By the time Willard Straight's son joined the staff, Croly's shadow on the magazine had faded to a faint blur...
Factory and tenement poured forth their faithful proletarians. No one sang the Ça ira, no one screamed, "à la lanterne!" But horny fists were raised and Marxist throats intoned the Internationale. At Ivry-sur-Seine, across the high road from the south, rose a barrier of cars, trucks and packing boxes...
Path Up. He had carried his Marxist beliefs into the labor movement, become president of the Madrid builders' union. Later, he sat in a dingy little office on Madrid's Calle de Fuencarral, directing the Union General de Trabajadores, Spain's C.I.O., building it to 1,500,000 turbulent members...
Pravda spoke in its own esoteric tongue. From the turgid depths of Marxist dialectics it dredged up the basic criterion for Soviet art: "The significance of the ideological and creative evolution of the Moscow Art Theater . . . consists in its recognition of partisanship...
...last Englishman had long been dead, the British Empire continued to exist. The Germans had been the first people to ask to have their chauvinisms removed by the Central Psycho-Surgical Bureau. Russian Communism ("hoary with age") had clothed itself in such "intoxicating religious pomp" that the young Marxist clergy swung censers (full of disinfectant), chanted rhymed statistics and wore miters inscribed with the sacred text: "The Welfare of the Greatest Number of Microorganisms is the Purpose of the Cosmos." The U.S. had passed a Constitutional amendment "by virtue of which the economic law of supply and demand was declared...