Max Eastman
| Max Eastman was a jewish CIA propaganda agent, of CIA front American Congress for Cultural Freedom of Sidney Hook, founded in 1950, as US branch of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Berlin, used to write communist and anti-communist propaganda. His parents were friends of Mark Twain. He was educated at Columbia University as Phi Beta Kappa by John Dewey with Sidney Hook and Corliss Lamont (ACLU, friend of Julian Huxley). He was a fellow student of Walter Lippmann. From 1907 he lived in NY with his sister Crystal Eastman. |  |
He played a role in the Greenwich Village scene with Mabel Dodge and the Harlem Renaissance with Claude McKay.
From 1912 he was editor of socialist magazine The Masses (Art Young, Floyd Dell, John Sloan, Upton Sinclair of NAACP).
He founded The Liberator, published by the Communist Party of America, with John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway.
He worked in the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. In 1924 married the sister of Nikolai Krylenko and moved to France where he wrote Since Lenin Died and Marx and Lenin: the Science of Revolution.
In 1927 he returned to the US, promoting Leon Trotsky.
He helped founding the Men's League for Women's Suffrage (early feminism) with Stephen Wise (NAACP), John Dewey, Simon Flexner (Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Institution), George Foster Peabody, Herbert Parsons, Frank Vanderlip (Federal Reserve), George Creel (propaganda office of Woodrow Wilson). He was funded by Huntington Hartford (artist colony in Rustic Canyon).
He worked for Reader's Digest, The Freeman and National Review.
In the 50's he worked with jesuit Joseph McCarthy (team of Roy Cohn).
He was a member of the Mont Pelerin Society with jesuit Edwin Feulner (Victims of Communism, CIIS), Karl Popper, William F Buckley,..
His sister, feminist Crystal Eastman co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Richard Wright (New Masses) coined the term Black Power and contributed to Les Temps Modernes with JP Sartre.
Ralph Ellison (New Masses) was a member of the Hudson Institute.
Tina Modotti was a friend of Frida Kahlo.
He was portrayed by Mark Pellegrino in Hemingway & Gellhorn with Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman.
born 1/4/1883.
died 3/25/1969.
American Congress for Cultural Freedom