“The crude animal egoisms of men and classes of men thus grab ideas and use them, not as heroic lights to action, but as blinds to hide inaction or actions that are too base.”
“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 Eastman
"These oversoulful people have not wanted to deny science or deprive themselves of its benefits, but neither have they wanted to commit themselves to its methods of acquiring knowledge..." ~Max Eastman
"In the mind of the Marxist, dialectic is the 'leader of all knowledge' and 'holds the primacy and rule of all philosophy,' and of science ,too..." ~Max Eastman