A genial individualist goes on an exploratory journey to discover what has become of the old-time socialism now that the socialists are scuttling Marx
It was great fun, in the old days, to heckle socialists. The doctrinaires claimed “scientific” exactitude for the gospel-according-to-Marx, and were inclined to do battle for their dogmas. Forty or thirty years ago there was no more enjoyable sport on the campus than to comer a Marxist and wrangle with him over the labor theory of value or historical inevitability or any of the “absolutes” of their creed. That kind of fun is denied the current student, for socialism is a disintegrating religion, and Marxism no longer has any orthodox believers.
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