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Author of a Communist tract called The Coming Struggle for Power, baldish, fattish, 37-year-old British Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey says he is no Communist. Having barely escaped deportation proceedings during a U.S. lecture tour in 1935, young Mr. Strachey this year set out on another with the proofs of a new book, Hope in America, under his arm. Last week he sat cooling his heels, along with a Hungarian pianist and two Montenegrin stowaways, in the flag-draped detention room at Ellis Island...
...Strachey was wrathful because the Department of State had canceled his visa while he was on the high seas. The State Department maintained that it had canceled the visa on evidence of fraud: after swearing to the U.S. Consulate-General in London that he did not advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force or violence, John Strachey had become an official of the British Communist Party. Mr. Strachey denounced this charge as false, demanded a hearing from the State Department. The Department frostily agreed to grant one in London. But the American Civil Liberties Union and other outraged...
...accusation that Marxist theoreticians are as dour as they are unintelligible, the favorite Red comeback is the case of John Strachey. Cousin of the late Lytton Strachey, heir to an English baronetcy, former M.P. who in 1931 quit the Mac-Donald coalition government to join the Reds, John Strachey is a softly athletic six-footer who lectures in tails. Smoothtongued, witty, he has made himself a favorite with middle-class lecture audiences, while his Coming Struggle for Power (1933), the first and only "Party line" bestseller, made him a reputation as the nearest thing to a popularizer of the nearly...
...timidities, defeats. These all are traced to one original sin: The adoption by British labor of the "British" evolutionary, "substitute" socialism taught by the Fabians under Sydney Webb and George Bernard Shaw, instead of the "scientific socialism" of Karl Marx. The Fabians were not consciously malicious or cowardly, says Strachey, they were merely ignorant, got their socialist wires crossed because they did not know what a capitalist State was all about. They said the State was "a great league of consumers," hence worked with the Government when they thought its politicians "good," sulked when they considered them "bad." Marxists said...
...this thought which must, says Strachey, animate "The New Model" Labor Party of England and the U. S. At present, he confesses, The New Model is mostly in rough pencil sketch. But he is immensely confident in his expectation of shortly going into mass production. For the U. S., all that is now needed is to create a Labor Party, enroll a couple of hundred thousand more Communists to start the Labor Party off on the Left foot...