Elia Kazan Quotes
I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
Kazan, Elia. Elia Kazan: A Life. Knopf, 1988.
He was about to become President but his overt, sharp criticism of Communism caused him to be shunted aside.
He finally had to. In the government of national reconciliation, the Fascists—called Conservatives after WWII—were led by Don Manuel and he took the second place while the Republicans with the majority had the Prime Ministership. The Communists were part of the Republican coalition as they had been in the Civil War.
Referring to his early Washington administrative experiences:
Moody was an avid Protestant Evangilical. The reference to the "reign of terror" was not to the French Revolution per se but to a national calamity of the severity and magnidute of the French Revolution sd God's wrath would be triggered if more AMericans were not Evangelized. What is particualry interestting is by 1886 Communism had already developed a bad reputation in the part of many religious fundamentalists and considered a sin of the first order such as adultery. The red scare was alive and well. Ironically, Moody and most other anti-communism evengelicals were not hostile brecause of Karl Marx's economic or historical views and theories, but rather Marx's, Engels', and other early Communitists hostility to organized religion was the main casue. The economic adn political opponents of Communism enlisted the aid of as many religious people was possible by emphasing "Godless Communism" and the vast majority of Americans at the time, if they knew anything about Communism at all, it was that the communists were hostile and opposed to religion.
Elia Kazan was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
