Marxism Has Not Only Failed To Promote

Democracy Evolves Where Freedom Is Able To Determine Its Own Policy.

Humanity Has A Strange Fondness For Following Processions. Get Four Men Following A Banner Down The Street, And, If That Banner Is Inscribed With Rhymes Of Pleasant Optimism, In An Hour, All The Town Will Be Afoot, Ready To March To Whatever Tune The Leaders Care To Play.

Great Works Of The Imagination Are Not Produced Quickly Nor Do They Take Quick Effect On The Popular Mind.

I Never Understood Exactly Why People Get Engaged--the Only Time I Ever Did The Most Disastrous Things Happened--but I Feel That There's A Great Deal To Be Said For Immediate Matrimony Always. If I Once Got Started I'd Probably Have To Become A Mormon To Cover My Confusion. What I Mean Is That If He And She Are Crazy About Each Other It Is Sheer Tempting God To Stay Apart, Come What May. And If People Arent Crazy About Each Other Being Engaged Wont Help Them.

It's Not The Possibility Of Stalinism In The U.s. That's Worrying Me, It's The Fact That The Stalinist C.p. Seems Doomed To Fail And To Bring Down With It All The Humanitarian Tendencies I Personally Believe In--all The While Acting As A Mould On Which Its Obverse The Fascist Mentality Is Made--and This Recent Massacre Is Certainly A Sign Of Stalinism's Weakness Not Of Its Strength. None Of That Has Anything To Do With Marx's Work--but It Certainly Does Influence One's Attitude Towards A Given Political Party.