Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The U.S. is in the grip of a semipermanent revolution, constantly undergoing social and economic changes that in Europe might send people to the barricades. Occasionally, Americans may still try to re-enact the two-fisted frontiersman, but the real source of much American violence is the swift pace of...
Yet the heady and passionate concept of the international socialist revolution is difficult for some men to give up. Isaac Deutscher is one of those who seem to have taken to it as others take to wine and women. He still carries a torch for the Russian Revolution as the...
Third Act Coming. To Deutscher, the events of 1917 were but the first act of a continuing international revolutionary happening; the second act was the Chinese Communist takeover of 1948; and the curtain is about to rise on the third. The Russian Revolution really consisted of two revolutions, proletarian and...
Myth v. Reality. Persuasive though he sounds, the fabric of Deutscher's interpretation is thin and full of holes. He is right in accusing nationalism of subverting international revolution; yet it must be remembered that Communism also constantly tries to subvert and take over nationalistic movements, and often succeeds...
Deutscher, now 60, obviously remains caught up in his love affair with the bitch goddess of the left-international socialist revolution. And even though his love has not only been wed but ravaged by all sorts of adventurers, he still regards her as essentially pure, as innocent as she seemed...