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He worked for the YMCA in Russia where he worked with a number of Bolshevik leaders including Lenin and Stalin . He received a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University and was a professor at the Yale Divinity School .

His failure to receive tenure caused controversy, as it was widely believed to be due to his activism and Socialist leanings. It is alleged that he was a Stalinist sympathizer. He was blacklisted by the HUAC in the 1950s.

He founded the American group " Promoting Enduring Peace " and organized many trips to the USSR for purposes of advocacy during the Cold War .


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  • "If democracy is to endure, capitalism as we know it must go." (From ''Capitalism and its Culture'')