Word: marxists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet Russia today is a far cry from Communism-that is, Communism according to Karl Marx. Joseph Stalin's iron personal dictatorship (with its capitalistic features so reassuring to many) makes most old-line Marxists hold their heads and wonder what happened. Whatever became of the Marxist dream of an egalitarian society? The Kremlin (like the U.S. Communist Party) still uses Marx as a sort of ikon and devises rationalizations to make its actions square with Marx's teachings. But most genuine Marxists have been driven, by the failure of the Bolshevist Revolution to lead to a Marxist...
...citizens most learned in Marxism and most concerned about its failures to date are Professors James Burnham and Sidney Hook, colleagues in philosophy at New York University. Now that Marxist efforts toward a society of free and equal men seem to have been sidetracked, both men are concerned with the question of whether democracy, in the sense of government by the people, is possible...
...Vincent Sheean's Personal History (TIME, Feb. 4, 1935) he told how he stood near the Acropolis at Athens one day and held a passionately political conversation with the ghost of a Bolshevik. The Bolshevik was the late Rayna Prohme, U.S. Marxist, with whom Sheean had had a violently platonic love affair during the Chinese revolution and later in Moscow. "But I'm not a revolutionary," Sheean complained. Said Rayna's spirit: "Whoever told you you had to be a revolutionary? Everybody isn't born with an obligation to act." Mrs. Prohme's spirit urged...
...Bolshevik revolution, the Italian Fascist revolution, the Chinese revolution, the Nazi revolution, the New Deal, the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of World War II. At some time or other Vincent Sheean managed to look in at all of them. He has a unifying sense, derived from his Marxist studies, that all these historic spasms were related forms of a common convulsion, a worldwide social revolution. He writes with vividness and candor of his own life amidst this convulsion...
...Harvard Vanguard is a Marxist magazine, for we of the John Reed Society feel that the approach of the Marxist, of the Communist, is the most valid of all possible approaches," it was asserted...