New Styles in “Leftism”

With this issue DISSENT opens up a discussion of the “new leftism,” in which, as always in our pages, a wide range of opinion will be welcome and each person will speak for himself. One view is expressed below by Irving Howe; a sharply divergent one by Staughton Lynd appears on p. 324. Certain editors of DISSENT have indicated an interest in writing on aspects of the subject where they disagree with one or another of these articles; and within limits of space and competence, we sh...