Einstein....

I have been reading a book of selected letters, speeches, magazine articles and interviews by/of Albert Einstein. One arc that I see over his lifetime was his move (first as an 'outsider') for love of America and its system of government to his latter position of espousing socialism. I think the problem is he allowed himself to be influenced by ivy league intellectuals...· about an hour ago near Atlantic Beach

• • Einstein wrote "Any Government is in itself evil, in so far as it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into tyranny." p155, Einstein, Ideas and Opinions.

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  • His socialist positions were taken beyond his writings when he supported Henry Wallace for president in 1948, the progressive party candidate~ a split of the ultra left of the Dem Party.