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...mayor was untouched; there were great evil forces at work in the world, and Paul Egan stood ready to analyze them with frequent, mysterious monologues. Sample: "Lenin was a noble man, like Gandhi. It was that sonofabitch Trotsky that messed things up. And that obscenity Stalin. I wonder where he came from. I'll tell you. I think J. P. Morgan put him in. The two big things that cause world tension are religion and the National Association of Manufacturers. I went down to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and I saw gutters made out of marble...
...Lenin's Words. World War I cut off from Marxism those who preferred patriotism to party. Then, when the whole movement seemed to have collapsed, the Bolshevik revolution came to rally the U.S. left in a kind of "ecstasy." At this stage many an older reader will recognize the names. An ex-anarchist named Michael Gold was converted; Eugene Debs declared himself a Bolshevik; Max Eastman was elated. Many a poor visionary in New York-remembering a fellow sometimes called Bronstein who had lived in The Bronx and would lecture for $10 a night-now felt the taste...
...professional Socialist organizer at 15, at 20 a veteran "theoretician." On Sept. 1, 1919 the first convention of the Communist Party of America, in a little building in Chicago called "Smolny" (after the first GHQ of the Russian Soviets), elected Fraina its first International Secretary. He echoed Lenin's words-the new party must be a party of action. Yet within three years Fraina was out of the C.P.. was later hounded by false charges of espionage and embezzlement. He spent ten years as respected Professor Lewis Corey at Antioch College (he died in 1953). Fraina...
Worried Neighbor. Across the eastern border the Russians are watching this strange sight uneasily. The mixed economy is not a new phenomenon, but an expedient, in Soviet politics. In 1921 Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) tolerated private enterprise, but when Stalin thought the economy was sufficiently on its feet again, he ruthlessly liquidated every vestige of free enterprise. In Red China today, Party Leader Mao Tse-tung tolerates a controlled capitalism for the same purpose...
...underhanded for the communists in their efforts to woo the working class. Further, the smear techniques of the Conservative and coalitionist opposition drove Labour to even greater lengths to keep from being linked with communism in the public mind. In every statement, Labour repudiated the very fundamentals of Lenin's Russia...