In Long Island City, not far from Manhattan, there are several old, dilapidated factory buildings that once were the site of the plant where 10,000 workers were building the Brewster Buffalo and the Corsair, fighter planes used by the Army …
During the next four years the long-run contradictions of American society, above all its hostility to full employment, are going to be its short-run problems. The achievement of even significant reform will require a challenge to the basic corporate domination …
Here to Stay: American Families in the Twentieth Century, by Mary Jo Bane. New York: Basic Books. 195 pp. Conservatives panic at the thought of the demise of the American family; utopians call for its abolition. Both seem to agree …
Two and a half years after the publication in the West of the first volume of Gulag Archipelago, with the sensation that produced and the subsequent expulsion of the author from the U.S.S.R., the third volume of this monumental work …
Months, even years will pass before the dust settles over the issues raised by the Steelworkers’ 1977 International union election. Lloyd McBride, the candidate representing the union’s incumbent administration, clearly has won a convincing electoral victory by amassing some 58 …
Editors: Philip Green’s discussion of Arthur Jensen’s work [in the Spring, Summer, and Fall 1976 issues of Dissent] does not lead the reader to a very accurate understanding of what this work is about. A proper summary of it would …
Utopia and Revolution, by Melvin J. Lasky. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 726 pp. Condorcet, the great exemplar and martyr of the French Revolution, wrote under the shadow of death that “the friend of humanity can enjoy unmixed pleasure …
Scarcity: A Critique of the American Economy, by Gus Tyler. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 245 pp. Is scarcity inevitable in post-OPEC America, where natural resources are in ever shorter supply and the terms of trade continue …
Confidence has been at a low ebb lately. Hunger for injections of invigorating optimism runs high. Politicians recognize the need to bolster the national ego and stoke collective hopes. Jimmy Carter repeatedly exhorts us to have greater faith in ourselves, …
I had read widely in revolutionary literature, had observed many Communists, white and black, and had learned to know the daily hazards they faced and the sacrifices they made. I now wanted to give time to writing the book of …
It was widely, and correctly, noted after the defeat of Sweden’s Social Democratic party that the new “bourgeois” government was unlikely to turn back the clock on the welfare-state policies for which Sweden is renowned. (Swedes, including members of these …
Every great revolution puts forth, for debate by future scholars and partisans alike, a quintessential historical and interpretative question. Of all the historical questions raised by the Bolshevik revolution and its outcome, none is larger, more complex, or more important …
Poverty in the United States remains a widespread and persistent problem. In 1975 the Census Bureau reported that nearly 26 million persons had incomes, or were living in households having incomes, that fell below the so-called poverty threshold ($5,500 for …
Once again, national health insurance is said to be “impending,” a condition reminiscent of the old quip about Brazil: “It is the land of the future, and always will be.” NHI, to use the official acronym, has long been a …
By comparison to the Kennedy-Johnson 1964 tax cut or even the Ford administration’s 1975 acceptance of congressional demands for antirecessionary action, the Carter program, as originally presented to Congress at the start of the new Administration, was disappointingly small. The …
