PROGRAM PLAN OUTLINE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF KARL MARX

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• Publication Date: March 1, 1958

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PROGRAM PLAN OUTLIVE
75th Anniversary of the Death of Karl Marx
- March 14 -
To exploit the climate of fresh and unorthodox political thinking,
labeled "revisionist" and "humanist" in the U.S.S.R., Radio Libera-
tion will conduct a campaign on Marxism Today between March 14 and
approximately May 5, the anniversary of Marx's birth. In principle,
the campaign will be extensive rather than intensive with a few
shows per week stretching over a considerable period.
A. Objectives.
1. To stimulate heretical thinking by showing that outside the
Soviet Union Marxism is not &static, dogmatic body of
thought which ignores contemporary social and economic
realities.
2. To undermine confidence in any form of Marxism by suggest-
ing that its basic assumptions, its historical method and
its predictions are false.
3. To show - that the future does not belong to the communist
idea and the Soviet State structure.
B. Methods.
1. Radio Liberation will be the medium for an international
discussion on Marxism Today by leading Marxists and commen-
tators on Marxism. (See attached list of possible contribu-
tors.)
2r. Garmanikov or emother qualified student a the Polish
scene will be requested to write 4 short series on ideolo-
gical trends in Poland. Material on Ranch and other East
European "revisionists" will be repeated.
A short series will demonstrate how communist ideology and
the Soviet political structure is rejected by youth in
democratic countries, in the satellites and in the USSR
itself.
4. Possibly short series will depict Marx, the human being, on
the basis of The Red Prussian by Leopold Schwarzschild,
Marx by Isaiah Berlin or other biographic material. -
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Possible Contributors
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A. The Special Events Staff in Munich will write the following
people and contact some in person.
UNITED KINGDOM: Bertrand Russell,, Isaiah Berlin, Kingsley Martin,
Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan, Peter Fryer, Colin Clarke,
Winbton Churchill, Hugh Gaitskell, Salvador Madariaga, Arthur._
Koestler and Arnold Toynbee.
FRANCE: Lecoeur� Andre Philip, Vincent Auriol, Andler� Denis
de Rougemont� Herve� Manes Sperber, Boris Souvarine, Francois
Bondy.
AUSTRIA: Bruno Pitterman, Oscar Pollk.and Benedikt Kautsky.
WEST GERMANY:. Alfred Kantorowioa.
:BENELUX; Paul Henri Spaako*Leszek Kolakowski, Alfred Moser
and Louis Major.
*(Polish)
SCANDINAVIA: Trygve Lie, Ture Nerman, Poike Tuominen, Jeri
Hjalmarsson, Sven Asp/ing, Erhard Jacobsen, Olavi Lindblom.
ITALY: Hon. Eugenio Reale, Guiseppe Saragat, Pietro Nonni,
Ignazio Silone, Antonio Giolitti, Matteotti, Angelica Balabanova.
ASIA: Jawaharlal Nehru, U Nu, Dwidjajuwono Wartomo, Jayaprakash
Narayan� M. Tata.
B. The following names are suggested for contact by the New York.
Program Department: Gianza Paz, victor Torre de la Maya,
Norman Thomas, Gates, Browder, Sidney Hook, Howard Fast,
J. Lovestone, Max Eastman, Eugene Lyons.
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