Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeared to be in agreement on one main point, that spirit and revitalization are badly needed in present times, whether to further socialist ideas as with Thomas or to work for greater self-government as with Dos Passos...
Socialism has modified the old capitalist method into the present system which appears to be working well. Dos Passos emphasized, however, that this doesn't mean that it always will. The socialist technique has brought us up to this point, he said, but it is no longer the solution to the world's problems...
...existing socialist system, as typified by Great Britain, tends to stagnate, and its adherents lose interest and enthusiasm. This situation can be remedied only by a self-government interested in attaining a definite goal, Dos Passos said...
Norman Thomas and John Dos Passos '16 will debate "The Future of Socialism" tonight at Sanders Theater in the Law School Forum. Thomas, six times presidential candidate for the Socialist party, is expected to defend his party against the criticism of Dos Passos...
...Passos, author of the trilogy "U.S.A." and other novels, was at one time a member of the Socialist party. He subsequently left the party, however, after attacking it as a failure. Thomas, besides his work for the Socialists, was one of the organizers of the Civil Liberties Union...