Max Eastman
Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy, and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes.
Background
- Born in
- Canandaigua
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityWilliams College
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Trending topics shown first"Stalinism is worse than fascism, more ruthless, barbarous, unjust, immoral, anti-democratic, unredeemed by any hope or scruple, ... better described as superfascist."
"A false and undeliberated conception of what man is lies at the bottom, I think, of the whole bubble-castle of socialist theory. Although few seem to realize it, Marxism rests on the romantic notion o…"
"An armed seizure of power by a highly organized minority party, whether in the name of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the Glory of Rome, the Supremacy of the Nordics, or any other slogan that ma…"
"Hegelism is like a mental disease—you cannot know what it is until you get it, and then you can't know because you've got it."
"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."
"I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."
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1883
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Birth1969
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