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Foibles, Facts and Fancies

Doubletaik

The trophy for doubletalk goes to John
Bracken, leader of the “Progressive Con-

servatives” (nice doubletalk in that name.

too!) Party. Bracken says he is all for co-
operatives... but that “‘if we ate to fight
double taxation of cooperatives, we must
also fight double taxation of private enter-
prize.’ In other words, non-profit organ-
izations such as cooperatives must be taxed
the Same as corporations or else the Big
Shots must not be taxed... . And in ail
hewspapers we have seen this report is
headed by “Bracken Defends Coopera-
tives!’ Some ° defense! (From “‘Foot-
prints and Fingerprints’’ by —“Ed® ini‘ the
Canadian Tribune )
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One World

The common interest of the three great
leading powers is the sure guide for Am-
ericas best interest, and for the best inter-
est of all the small and weaker nations.
For in the common interest of the Big
Three there can be nothing that really in-
jures any people in the whole world. That
is why there is no more dangerous enemy
of America today than those who demand
that our country should have its Own in-
dividual foreign policy separate from and

Opposed to that common policy laid down

in Moscow, Teheran and Crimea.
_ Browder).

(Earl

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Human Nature

- When Mrs. Stewart Edward W hite—
who is half-Spanish, half-Scotch—visited
Scotland, a fine old gentleman of that land
Said to her:

“Weel,. weel, my dear, so ye hae Scor-
fish bluid in ye! That gives ye a Scottish
conscience. It won’t keep ye from sinning ;
itll just keep ye from enjoyin’ it!” (Quot-
ed from Pageant in Modern Digest.)

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Interviews of the Day

Question: “What do you think Sf the
Big Three Agreement?”’

Adolph Hitler: “This is what comes
of not listening to my intuition—I knew
we never should have given up the GCri-

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mea.

Tokyo Radio: “It has just been reveal-
ed that Roosevelt and his staff left Wash- =
ington and went to the Crimea. This con-
firms the report that our armies aé men-
acing the American capital.”

' Pole Government-in-Exile: “We here-
by proclaim the Big Three agreement null
and void since the Crimea by rights be-
longs in a Greater Poland and the Big
Three had no authority to meet there
without our permission.”

Watson Kirkconnell: “What is happen-
ing to Poland is terrible—better no Pol-
and at all than a strong democratic one.”

Mr. J. Coldwell: ““The Crimea confer-
ence was one betrayal after another. Stalin
did not insist that Roosevelt and Churchill
institute socialism in their countries, there-
by betraying the cause of socialism. On
the other hand, Roosevelt and Churchill
did not insist Stalin institute-capitalism in
his country, thereby betraying the cause
of capitalism. Now the world has no one
in whom it can place confidence, except
myself... (Alan Max in the New York

Worker, slightly changed in the Canadian

Tribune to approximate Canadian condi-
tions. ) .
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Joe ‘Doakes says: “Eamon. Park sure
pulled a boner when he told the local pa-
pers that 90 percent of the CCL back the
CCF kidnapping of the CCL-PAC, on the
same day news came that the UAW, with
over 25 percent of the CCL membership,
withdrew. Reminds me of somebody or
other who captured Moscow in °41, went
on to take Stalingrad in “42 and is still
going at full speed — you know where.
Sorry you had to leave so soon, Eamon.”

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Book Review

MAN’S WAY, by Henry Van Zandt Cobb. Published by Long:
Green and Company, 1942. : :
~ By A. DETTMAN “3513 1 ee
Tas little book first appeared in 1942, and had the reviewer
able to discern in its modest title the capacity of the an:
you would have heard about it longs before now. As it was,
quiet reputation which Man’s Way has achieved im progre
university circles in the United States drifted in on the w
of an article in New Masses, wherein it was cited as a brill
example of the kind of text material urgently needed if we
to imbue the generation now in school with ‘the desire to S
democratic society and aid in its dialectical development. “. - -Ux
we consciously move forward, we tend to ally ourselves with t
who move backward; for without conscious self-direction, we.
on the basis of habit and memory, and these always look to:
past.” = : : i
Historically, Cobb examines traditional and contemporary s
thought and philosophy in the light of its group or class orig
determining its effectiveness by the ability of such thousk:
solve the concrete problems to which it is addressed. In
examination are exposed the shady and unwarranted assump?
which emerge from rigid thought—processes founded upon
stracted, fixed and unalterable “‘principles.” . 2g
“Philosophy grows out of life and life’s processes; §
these are constantly undergoine change, shifts and transfor
tions, “it (philosophy) must return ‘constantly to its native
or else forfeit the right to serious consideration by intelligent mm
Science, too, grows out of life and life’s problems. But
this necessarily mean that science and philosophy are sepa
developments, competing in the minds of men for exelt
allegiance? With much of traditional philosophy that has eme
out of the matrix of class society this is so, and so long as
work with the outworn tools and concepts fashioned in the im:
developmental stages of class society, they will have diffic
in understanding the dynamics of;,class society in the tywil|
which precedes its transformation. :
“The work of giants ...such as Marx, lay primarily in for:
new symbolic instruments for the analysis of objective experier |
And how fortunate for us that Soviet man has learned hoy.
use these “instruments” in solving the great issues which 1
arisen, since Marx’s time, to plague and challenge the worl
our day!
Increasingly, especially among the intellectual decendents |
builders of Marxism, the unity of science has lone been recogn
and championed. But this recognition alSo includes an aware,
of the vast and complex subject matter of science; thus specia!
tion is seen as a necessity upon which is predicated our abilit:
achieve and apply, concretely, solutions to specific problem:
they arise. Sc ae
Notwithstanding the need for scientific Specialization,
must encompass the unity which is science in our outlook. “
does not mean the mere fitting together of originally indepen:
and disjoined bodies of knowledge, a procedure which could re
only in a composite jig-saw puzzle. It means; rather, that scic
must see its subject matter and its methods as (interacting) >;
of one whole from the very beginning, It is the task of philoso:
to designate this whole and reveal its character, neither in advs
of scientific investigation nor after its subject has been comple |
but along with science, unifying its endeavors and results in a;
sistent and clear picture of the meanings and purposes of the yi
ous forms of human activity.” Such is indeed the aim and ese.
which characterises the world-outlook of dialectical materiali
Yes, Man’s Way, by Henry Van Zandt Cobb, is a.good bi
It’s not an easy book to read, since the author’s style inelv
equivalent phrases for many long-established and well-defi |
terms familiar to Marxists. This, however, ean become a m
worthy “defect” in that it forces upon the willing reader a ere :

elasticity of thought: but to the lazy and effete, the rare and sli
obstacles may have the appearance of clumsiness. T hope Go),

classes at Minnesota are well attended.

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