Word: marxists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between stays in Russia, she traveled from revolution to revolution; her favorite was China, where she denounced Chiang Kai-shek as a bandit, and extolled the Chinese Communist leaders as Marxist saints. During lecture tours in the U.S. she tried to convert everyone in sight to Communism, including Henry Ford. She noted with asperity that the only American organizations which refused to listen to her were the National City Bank of New York and the House of Morgan...
...that A.Y.D. was finding it too tough to get new members, or even to hold on to old ones. It had shrunk to a handful of active chapters. There was nothing left to do but change names again. Soon, as A.Y.D. promised, U.S. colleges would discover a new "Marxist youth organization" on their campuses, "carrying forward A.Y.D.'s . . . militant activity in the interests of young people." But this time it might be harder: Communist fronts no longer seemed to have the attraction that they had had in the piping days of war, or in the first uneasy...
...Lecture Hall last April, there was a heckling element in the crowd which gave an annoying demonstration of contempt for the First Amendment. And when Gerhart Eisler spoke in Emerson D on Monday night, there was also a demonstration--a quiet and amiable demonstration of willingness to hear Marxist theories from a German Communist. There could be little doubt that the vast majority of Eisler's listeners disagreed emphatically with practically everything he said. Yet there were no outbursts of protest, no low-level practical jokes, no heckling...
Speaking on "The Marxist Theory of Social Change," Eisler delivered an hour-long lecture on the history of scientific socialism, ending his talk with a prediction that "the twentieth century will see the ultimate victory of socialism in the world." Afterwards he answered questions from his audience for another hour...
After mentioning briefly other common theories of history, he outlined the main tenets of dialectic materialism, assorting that under Marxist methods of scientific inquiry, "man's eventual complete understanding of nature is assured...