Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from above, we arrive at a kind of prison existence where everyone is at the mercy of the warders. And in our modern prisons the warder is at any rate a recognized official, against whom one can lodge a complaint. But who will be the warders in the general socialist prison? There will be no question of lodging complaints against them; they will be the most merciless tyrants ever seen, and the rest will be the slaves of these tyrants...
Fronts & Purges. Marx did not absorb the morals of the dialectic immediately. When, at 24, he became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung (a paper owned by bourgeois and written by their radical sons), he promptly ordered contributors to stop smuggling socialist propaganda into casual drama reviews; he said the practice was downright "immoral...
From Cecil to Cecil. For centuries the House of Commons had been whittling away at the Lords' powers. Now the Socialist government was at it. The Lords' power of veto went in 1911, but they could still delay legislation. Labor was out to clip this delaying period from two years to one. The Lords suspected another aim: to draw the Lords' last teeth and leave the hereditary House as a Blimpish appendage-or even abolish it altogether...
...Earnest Socialist. To reach this eminence, Strunsky had to master a language not his own. The Strunskys came to New York's lower East Side from Vitebsk, Russia, when Simeon was seven. At 17, Strunsky won a scholarship to Columbia University, made Phi Beta Kappa, was an earnest Socialist...
...Socialist Strunsky liked to call himself a "Tory." He clung to certain "oldfashioned beliefs," like the idea that "parents are a useful thing for children to have; that freedom is a good thing for everybody; that America is a pretty good country for its plain people . . . that the story of the occupation of the American continent is not an exclusive record of graft and plunder and wastage [and] that ,the industrial history of America [is] not entirely a story of company Cossacks riding down coal strikers . . . but also the story of a rising standard of living...