Eastman, Max [Forrester]
Eastman, Max [Forrester]( 1883–1969),social critic, whose writings are devoted to literary criticism, the relation of art to life, and problems of economic inequality. He is best known for his social criticism, although his first book, Enjoyment of Poetry (1913), had a success unsurpassed by any of his later works. His own verse was collected in Poems of Five Decades (1954). He was a founder and editor of The Masses and The Liberator. Among his later books are Marx, Lenin, and the Science of Revolution (1926); The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science (1931); Artists in Uniform (1934); a translation of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution (3 vols., 1932–33); Enjoyment of Laughter (1936); Marxism: Is It Science? (1940); Stalin's Russia (1940), showing his hostility to the orthodox Communist party line; and Reflections on the Failure of Socialism...
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