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Max Forrester Eastman è stato un saggista, scrittore, critico letterario e poeta statunitense.

✵ 4. Gennaio 1883 – 25. Marzo 1969
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“Penso che siano forse le scelte, più che le decisioni, che Trotsky trova difficili. Come tutti gli uomini dotati del dono della comprensione, come anche della realizzazione, trova difficile fare un passo che determinerà la corrente dei propri sentimenti.”

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Origine: Il giovane Trotsky, p. 36

“Mi chiedo quante rivoluzioni ci vorranno prima che gli adulti imparino a non dire ai figli: «Ho avuto le stesse idee quando avevo la tua età.»”

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Origine: Il giovane Trotsky, p. 55

“Un'attitudine fulminante per la matematica, un'immaginazione costruttiva instancabile, una personalità adatta al comando; e poi un padre con molta terra, molti soldi e una monumentale ambizione da costruire: è davvero un miracolo che Trotsky non divenne un ingegnere.”

Max Eastman

Origine: Il giovane Trotsky, p. 54

“«La fede senza lavoro è morta»: questo era il motto che Trotsky scelse per sé in quei giorni decisivi [della primavera del 1897].”

Max Eastman

Origine: Il giovane Trotsky, p. 64

“In questi libri [radicali], scritti con uno stile molto nobile ed elevato, Trotsky trovò un canale comune per molte delle corrente prevalenti nella sua natura. Senza offendere il suo duro senso della realtà, gli offrivavno un ideale. Gli offrivano il mondo come campo per quell'istinto vero, il «mettere le cose a posto», che era così forte in lui. C'è un'incredibile serietà nelle persone che considerano la religione triviale. E questi libri mostrarono a Trotsky come avrebbe potuto vivere la vita seriamente con uno scopo che fosse più grande di lui, della sua sopravvivenza quotidiana e del suo vestire bene. Gli mostrarono la gloria dell'avventura e del progresso umano. E gli diedero un sostegno in quei sentimenti particolarmente forti di simpatia sociale e rivolta che aveva portato con sé dall'infanzia.”

Max Eastman

Origine: Il giovane Trotsky, p. 37

“Ci sono due tipi di marxisti. Ci sono coloro ai quali piace il marxismo perché dà loro l'opportunita, almeno credono, di ripudiare i valori più alti della vita; e a loro piace ripudiare queste cose. Ci sono altri ai quali il marxismo piace solo perché a loro piacciono i fatti, ed è necessario affrontare i fatti per procedere a costruire nella realtà concreta i valori più alti della vita.”

Max Eastman

Origine: Il giovane Trotsky, p. 49

“È una delle strane concessioni dei nostri dèi del denaro che finché la colonna editoriale esprime i loro interessi con ortodossa stupidità le recensioni dei libri possano essere un po' intelligenti.”

Max Eastman

Origine: Il giovane Trotsky, p. 102

Max Eastman: Frasi in inglese

“A smile is the universal welcome.”

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Origine: The Sense of Humor

“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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Origine: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 57

“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 may be invented, and no matter how ingeniously integrated with the masses of the population, will normally lead to the totalitarian state. 'Totalitarian state' is merely the modern name for tyranny.”

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Origine: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 18

“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.”

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Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution (1926), p.22

“Libertarians used to tell us that ‘the love of freedom is the strongest of political motives,’ but recent events have taught us the extravagance of this opinion. The ‘herd-instinct’ and the yearning for paternal authority are often as strong. Indeed the tendency of men to gang up under a leader and submit to his will is of all political traits the best attested by history. It has been so shockingly exemplified in modem times that only a somnambulist could ignore it in trying to build, or defend, a free society. His first concern should be to make sure that no one gang or group-neither the proletariat, nor the capitalists, nor the landowners, no the bankers, nor the army, nor the church, nor the government itself-shall have exclusive power.”

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Origine: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), pp. 37-38

“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 of Rousseau that nature endows men with the qualities necessary to be a free, equal, fraternal, family-like living together, and our sole problem is to fix up the external conditions. All Marx did about this with his dialectical philosophy was to change the tenses in the romance: Nature will endow men with the qualities as soon as the conditions are fixed up.”

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Origine: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 29

“Marxists profess to reject religion in favor of science, but they cherish a belief that the external universe is evolving with reliable, if not divine, necessity in exactly the direction in which they want to go.”

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Marxism: Is It Science? (1940)

“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.”

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

“More goods and fewer people is the slogan I should like to see carried at the head of humanity's march into the future.”

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Origine: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 55

“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.”

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The Masses (September 1917)

“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.”

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

“An honest, bold, loyal, and within its limits extremely highbrow attempt to produce through common ownership a society of the Free and Equal, produced a tyrant and a totalitarian state;…”

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

“Stalinism is worse than fascism, more ruthless, barbarous, unjust, immoral, anti-democratic, unredeemed by any hope or scruple, ... better described as superfascist.”

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Origine: Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1940), p. 82

“Stalinism, as we have seen, contains all of the evils of Nazism and Fascism, most of them in extremer form.”

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Origine: Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1940), p. 149

“I omit from consideration here the fact that people who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral, but in favor of the status quo.”

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Attributed by internet sources to Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics (1939), but not confirmed.
Origine: Enjoyment of Poetry With Anthology for Enjoyment of Poetry (1951), p. 233 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/oV5emKH2uhcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=status%20quo
Origine: The quote appears to have been first published in the essay "The Slogan, 'Propaganda Has No Place in Art,' Is The Symptom Of A Decaying Culture" https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/WX3NyDFUC_MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=eastman, Stage Magazine (1934).

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