Huberman and man's worldly goods

I finished reading Man's Worldly Goods by Leo Huberman.

It is a classic book and was written in 1936. Long time. The world had not yet left the crisis of 1929 and had not entered in World War II. Huberman wrote the book then at a crucial moment of the twentieth century. He made ​​impressive predictions on various subjects.

A curious thing: Russia was a communist baby-country, and Stalin was just Stalin.

Curious though communism is not seen by the author as an economic aberration as the way that is seen today. Although not treat in detail of socialism, in the end looks a little like To the Finland Station, by Edmund Wilson, another American who comes to the topic.

 

I made myself the question: these books really are historically relevant outside Brazil or simply are successful only in Brazil and only because they were written by some of the few American writers who do not openly speak about communism as a bad?

It gives the impression that there is in the mind of the Brazilian people, and even more in the mind of the Brazilian intelligentsia a passionate desire that Brazil turns in a communist country.

How can they feed this truly innocent passion?

How can a person with a PhD and well informed to believe that socialism and communism a la Fidel and Che Guevara can be viable here?

I dunno ... it smells as a disguised theology...