Max Eastman: Believer

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“It was natural that idealistic people who had ceased to believe in heaven should think up some bright hope for humanity on earth. That, I think, more than any objection to "capitalism", accounts for the spread of the socialist dream, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries.”

Max Eastman

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 45

People , Dreams , Hope , Nature

“The backers of Hitler in Germany made the same mistake about the Nazi party that the workers and soldiers in Petrograd made about the Bolshevik party. Each group believed that this new brutal, rabid, monolithic fighting gang, on achieving power, would promote, as had been promised, its enlightened interests.”

Max Eastman

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 110

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