Word: utopian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are others who apparently envisage a society of a socialistic type. In their utopian state everyone, they believe, should receive an education at least the equivalent of the liberal arts colleges of four years. This seems to high a value on academic life...
...insistence that ethics are tools, that thought is relative. To a realist any form of internationalism is a cloak for a dominant group. To him a balanced power is fairer than any World Federation which would be simply a disguise for Anglo-American hegemony. One need not be a Utopian, however, to feel that Spykman's world order excludes any finite goal, any emotional appeal, or any basis for action. Even Karl Marx, after all, had to postulate a goal in which his discouraging dialectic no longer worked...
...concerns Mitchell's effort to run a haven for oppressed bushmen on the same island that holds a Mature plantation. Inevitably, both in logic and plot, the interests conflict. Mature comes on the scene, and in his inimitable way appeases the very appeasable daughter of the south-sea utopian...
...Department of Sociology as a "White Russian WPA." But Professor Sorokin, who is head of that WPA, began his career by being just as red as the rest of his intellectual, revolutionary friends. Back in 1916 in Petrograd, as a young lecturer, his ideas were well tinged with Utopian visions of a socialistic Russia. But his part in the "great experiment" was that played by so many moderates in so many revolutions, only with a happier ending. As he fed the Russian bear, it turned around and bit him. "In a revolution, power lies in the street...
...Hicks was probably thinking of just such a passage when he gibed at "a vague hope in some utopian revolution," and it is hard to disagree with him, much as one might like to. Maybe it makes me an undemocrat too--but as I see it the moral of the Spanish struggle is not that the democratic forces, the people, turned their bare breasts against the fascist tanks, but that the people lost. Dutch students may riot, yet Hitler crushes Holland with barely a contemptuous glance in their direction. You do not win this war by snowballing brown-shirted legions...