Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live in. It undoubtedly is. He is to be warmly applauded for being conscious of the rising class problem in the first place, and then for suggesting such basically sound measures. In so far as a free and classless society is relative--and at one point Mr. Conant says it is--his solution is the best one possible. Be that as it may, the classless society remains an ideal and an illusion...
Conant discussed the American ideal of a society free of class lines. "Have we reached a point where the ideal of a peculiar American society, classless and free, must be regarded as of only historical significance?" he asked, and then explained why he thought this...
Marxist economics got its modern prestige from Marx's prophecy that capitalism would go through more & more severe crises, would eventually stall. Parkes shows clearly that the Marxian analysis was correct only up to a point. Marx, for example, harped on only one form of "exploitation," that of the working people by the owning classes; modern experience proves that restricted production (high prices) and frozen capital are chief causes of depression, exploitation of workers, farmers and middle class alike...
...social justice, and this Parkes excepts from autopsy. Marx was right, Parkes believes, in encouraging a militant trade unionism. Industrial democracy is essential. But the crucial error of Marxism, as Parkes sees it, was the theory that freedom could be attained only in a collectivized society. On this point the evidence is mountain-high. Says Henry Bamford Parkes: "Capitalist society is half free and half slave; instead of extending freedom to all, the Marxists propose to abolish the freedom...
...yard end run by McNicol put the Freshmen ahead in the second period, and then Fisher added the extra point to make the score 13-6 for Harvard...