A Word From Alec Nove

Let us now imagine the reaction of a reviewer, writing in an imaginary journal that we will call the Revolutionary Worker. (I have never heard of one with that title, and hastily apologize to its editor if by any chance it exists.) Let us further imagine that the reviewer is a serious, committed, intelligent dogmatist, and that he would not be satisfied with mere denunciation: he will not speculate on how much the author was paid by the CIA, or assert that the ideas expressed are indistinguis...