Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World Revolution. Taking a world view-and both Stalinism and Trotskyism are simply variants on the Communist world theme-the establishment of Trotsky in Mexico is almost an ideal Red setup. As the Times of London has recently pontificated, there is reason to think that broad political developments in South American lands are now nearing the splits into Fascism and Communism which are making Europe feel strange and uncomfortable. In Europe the cleavage is now so sharp that no eminent cleaver is needed, but if Communism is to make further headway in those Latin-American republics which refuse to recognize...
...theory now to be that a success can be made oi Communism in one single country, namely the Soviet Union, and that the bulk of its funds should be devoted to achieving success there at this time, not scattered to sow Communism in other countries. These two points of view are generally accepted today as representing "Trotskyism," on the one hand, and Stalinism on the other. At the time of the British Coal Strike (which precipitated the British General Strike of 1927), its leaders cried, "Thank God for Moscow!" and received through the Bank of England from the Soviet State...
During 1936, revealed Pravda, the Gorky plant set itself the task of turning out 12,000 cars. The actual output was 2,500. In one day 24 of 47 cars turned out were tagged "unserviceable." In view of such conditions Soviet automobile authorities were agitating last week for the recall of the hundreds of foreign engineers who launched industrialism in the Soviet State but were dismissed "at the successful end of the first Five-Year Plan...
...gone too far along the path of the Vedanta to turn back now, and must follow it to its end, where I see a Cross." He admits he has not yet become an expert in the spiritual life, but he left India so full of grateful respect that his view of her future is very different from most of his compatriots': "India can manage her own affairs, given the right men in the right place...
Another pleasing aspect of this formal statement was the open-minded tone of hope which was promised by the view that "a football league has such promising possibilities that it may not be dismissed and must be the subject of further consideration." This is a considerable concession from some of those who scoffed at the mention of such a possibility a month...