Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations, by Richard J. Barnet and Ronald E. Muller. New York: Simon and Schuster. 508 pp. $11.95. Large industrial corporations with heavy investments abroad are nothing new. But they used to be concentrated …
The Stymied Revolution JEAN-MARIE DOMENACH: Has the French Communist party evolved and, if so, to what extent? A recent book by Harris and Sedouy, Voyage a l’interieur du Parti communiste, offers us a picture of a Communist party made up …
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart’s grown brutal from the fare. —Yeats Bombing is back in fashion: an end to thought, a flick of the killer’s arm. Add 20thcentury technology to 19th-century postures and the result, as …
No one is as stupid as a democrat turned imperialist or a revolutionary turned reactionary. When that happens the concepts get all mixed up. Just as it happens to each individual when his ideas come into conflict with the real …
The strangest aspect of the current minidepression, by far the deepest since the 1937-38 episode, is the almost passive reaction of the unemployed, the principal victims, and the bewilderment of economic experts who a few years ago were certain that …
Some time ago, writing about India’s population problem, I offered the suggestion—probably not original—that the introduction of television into the villages, aside from its potential educational value, might have the effect of reducing the birth rate in that the villagers …
“Freedom is a hard-won thing. You’ve got to work for it, fight for it, day and night for it, and every generation’s got to win it again.” The newest enactment of this political theme is unfolding in the United Steelworkers …
The military rulers of Portugal have decked their regime in ideological trappings that recall bygone times. They have warned the newly legalized parties of Portugal that “bourgeois democracy” is suspect, while “socialist democracy” is the real McCoy. This makes even …
On Facts and Figures Editors: The article [“Is Equality a Necessity?”] by Herman Miller in the Winter 1975 issue of Dissent is disturbing. By far the largest part is devoted to telling us that income and wealth are unequally and …
Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works, edited by Howard Zinn. New York: William Morrow & Co. 367 pp. Years ago a character in the Pogo comic strip proclaimed that “all freedom is academic.” The same is true …
The city of Paris recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its liberation from German occupation. It was the occasion for many commemorations of various kinds, some of them— like the Frenchwoman Beate Klarsfeld’s kidnapping of an alleged Nazi war criminal— …
The time has come to bring trade unions into the formulation of economic policy. Democratic socialists have always believed that workers should participate in decision-making and have recognized the trade unions as the legitimate representatives of the workers. But there …
You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s Rye, but can you be both a dove and an American supporter of Israel? Obviously, there’s no built-in contradiction. Yet some of us who stood together in opposing the American intervention …
Ever since the West first came into contact with China 250 years ago, the Western image of China has been remarkably volatile. Based on an ignorance rooted in great differences in language, culture, ideology, stages of development, and geographical location—and …
. . . there is now, with the existence of a large amount of sociological research on inequality of opportunity and inequality of result, and with the resurgence of interest among moral philosophers in inequality, as manifested in John Rawls’s …
