Getting Hegel out of History: Max Eastman's Quarrel with Marxism
1974; Oxford University Press; Volume: 79; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1868315
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)Anarchism and Radical Politics
ResumoTHE LIFE OF Max Eastman offers one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American intellectual 1history. During his rich and active literary years, he wrote over twenty books dealing with art, science, poetry, philosophy, humor, journalism, esthetics, anthropology, religion, capitalism, socialism, Soviet culture, German politics, Freudian psychology, and Marxism. He also composed five volumes of verse, a novel, two volumes of memoirs, a pioneering analysis of the young Trotsky's personality, and two collections of brilliant biographical portraits in which he brought to life an unlikely gallery of close friends and acquaintances: Eugene Debs and Albert Einstein, Carlo Tresca and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ernest Hemingwvay and George Santayana, Johln Dewey and Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell and Charles Chaplin. In addition, he published the radical journals The Alasses and The Liberator and later became, ironically, a rovingr editor for Reader's Digest and one of the first editorial advisers to William Buckley's conservative National Review. Mloreover, after having mastered Russian in a little more than a year, he skillfully translated Pushkin as wvell as Trotsky's monumental three-volume History of the Russian Revolution, edited an abridged Das Kapital for the Modern Library, smuggled out of the Soviet Union a copy of Lenin's Testament, and produced a historic documentary film on the Russian Revolution.l Eastman's reputation was as magnetic as his writings were prolific. Tall,
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