“The struggle is still for freedom; the main facts are still economic; the arch-enemy is still the soft-headed idealist who refuses to face facts.”
Max Forrester Eastman
(January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969)
“Max Eastman is a name unfamiliar to most people today. Despite having been a prolific writer and journalist, almost his entire body of work is out of print. In particular his mid to late career works are hardly referenced or mentioned in popular culture and media. I have a particular interest in seeing that change. I’d like to introduce to a new audience, and perhaps those already familiar with his legacy, a bit of my distant family history.”
~Lucio Saverio-Eastman
Max Eastman Quotes
Revolutionary Dictatorship
“The Marxist method is to accentuate the class struggle, organize it, and carry it forward…in full consciousness of the ruthlessness of the forces at play, to the goal of a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.” ~Max Eastman
Romantic Philosophy
“There is no intellectual question of more importance to the future of American culture than the question whether we are going to conduct our social efforts in the name of science, or are going to swallow down this romantic philosophy” ~Max Eastman
Totalitarian State
“An armed seizure of power by a highly organized minority party…will normally lead to the totalitarian state. ‘Totalitarian state’ is merely the modern name for tyranny.” ~Max Eastman
