«The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.»
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Reflexiones sobre el fracaso del socialismo (1955)
Frases célebres de Max Eastman
“Una mente libre es una mente que es capaz de imaginarse a sí misma creyendo algo.”
The Masses, septiembre de 1917.
Original: «A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.»
Fuente: Eastman, Max. Reflections on the failure of socialism. Editorial Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. p. 9.
«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.»
Marxism: Is It Science? (1940).
Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution (1926), p.22.
Original: «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.»
Fuente: Eastman, Max. Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution. Editorial Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781351777841.
Max Eastman: Frases en inglés
Fuente: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 57
Fuente: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 18
Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution (1926), p.22
Fuente: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), pp. 37-38
Fuente: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 29
Fuente: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 45
Fuente: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 55
“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.”
The Masses (September 1917)
Fuente: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 110
Fuente: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 110
Fuente: Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1940), p. 82
Fuente: Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1940), p. 149
Attributed by internet sources to Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics (1939), but not confirmed.
Fuente: 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
Fuente: 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).