My grandfather, Malcolm Campbell
See also: Maternal Grandfather: Campbell " I've selected the studio photo (#18) of my Uncle Malcolm so I can make some comments about him (with a tip of the hat to Dana). He had a keen mind, but was a sensitive and vulnerable person. He is 23 here in 1928 and was about to start graduate work at Stanford University. He and Inez Heyman married in 1929. He got his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology in 1934 and could find only one job (this being the depths of the Depression), part-time at New York University in New York City. He and his wife sympathized with Communism as did many American intellectuals of that era. What was the general idea? "From each according to his talents, to each according to his needs" to paraphrase Marx and Engels. None of these naïve do-gooders had any idea that Stalin had ordered the slaughter of millions of his countrymen or that Communism was a dictatorship even more stifling of individual liberties than the Romanovs they had displaced. So M...
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