Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that glory the ashes were already thick. The dead face of more than one rival might flood by in Benito Mussolini's remembrance: Giacomo Matteotti, the murdered Socialist who defied castor oil and clubs; Italo Balbo, cut down when he grew too popular in the Fascist State. Then there was the dead face of his son, Bruno, a casualty of the war the father had glorified. Then the dead faces of those hundreds of thousands of men lost with the empire in Africa, the dead and fear-racked faces of millions of civilians fleeing their bombed homes...
...Reiterated full support to Winston Churchill and the war effort. >Defined its final goal as a "Socialist Britain...
Stated simply: Lend-Lease as I see it is simply a gigantic socialist production-for-use program, the control of the means of production being held in the hands of the industrialists and not the workers; any other plan for postwar reconstruction-short of Socialism-not based upon this principle will fail, and we will begin to plow food under and kill cattle to keep the price up while the people starve...
Victory will not change the outlook. Professor Laski prophesies. The war's end will find the American industrial machine enormously expanded and in danger of remaining unused for lack of effective demand. And Socialist Laski jumps to the conclusion that, if this machine remains in private hands, the movement toward an American imperialism will be swift. World War II is a battle against counterrevolution, a battle in which the collapse of Hitler and Mussolini will mean no more than the end of an important stage in clearing the decks for a new society...
...most violent attacks ever directed against a faculty member in America. However much that first experience formed his views of the U.S., Harold Laski has not since then seen American life in brighter colors than black and red. This brilliant son of a leader of British Jewry, a socialist from his schooldays, with his radical views hardened by Oxford's snobbishness ("It was the first experience I had of the intensity of class division in England"), began his career writing editorials for Labor's Daily Herald. In World War I he was rejected for military service. His stormy...