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...John Strachey (as he calls himself with Bolshevik brevity) is a big (6 ft.), rubber-jointed, rugby-shouldered Oxonian, with watchful, musing eyes, a somewhat rabbity mouth, puffy lips. In his youth he was a member of the British Labour Party. He and dark, lean, taut Sir Oswald Mosley (now imprisoned leader of British Fascism) stood for Parliament at the same time, quit the Labour Party at the same time. When Sir Oswald formed the National Party, young Strachey became his left-hand man. But by 1935 the young men were so far apart that Lady Mosley cried: "He claims...
...PROGRAMME FOR PROGRESS - John Strachey - Random House...
...need for an orthodox but readable statement of Marxism in English was occasioning grave concern to the Agitprop (the Party's propaganda bureau) when Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey appeared, like a Red Moses, to make a path for the intellectual children of Israel through the Red Sea. His masterwork, The Coming Struggle for Power, made him the most important popularizer of Marxism outside Russia...
...frequently repairs, for penitence, to the "Lourdes Grotto" which "Uncle Jo" has built for her. Jo's other mainstay is sleek, Levantine Dr. Sigmund Obispo, who keeps the old man hopped up with hormone injections, and searches, meanwhile, for the substance by which, in Marxist John Strachey's optimistic phrase, "death might be indefinitely postponed." The doctor enjoys Jo Stoyte's mistress, old Jo himself does a bit of murder, and finally they all go to England, where Obispo uncovers the Fifth Earl of Gonister, who nominally died a century ago. The secret of living indefinitely...
...little background in these matters being widely desirable, Catlin's history is commendably addressed to laymen, gives in critical outline the best political thinking from Plato to Bertrand Russell, discovers a Grand Tradition from which fanaticism and specifically Hegelianism are excluded. Contemporaries Harold Laski and John Strachey, to say nothing of Adolf Hitler, do not come off so well under the author's analysis...