One can approach the phenomenon of fascism from various angles. The first analyses, mostly by Communist writers, explained it simply as the dictatorship of monopoly capital (a thesis that still lingers in Franz Neumann’s Behemoth, 1941, and Ignazio Silone’s School for Dictators, …
Politics is first of all the art of minimizing and controlling violence. It is a taxing and morally dangerous art because violence itself and the threat of violence are two of its instruments. These can be put to use with …
The Snobbism Of Charles Reich The latest intellectual fad, certain to last almost six months, is The Greening of America by Professor Charles Reich of Yale University. It is an eyes-wide paean to Consciousness III, that superior state of love …
There are different kinds and degrees of inflation at different times and in different places. The search for a universally applicable, simplistic and workable solution must therefore prove elusive. Attempts to explain the causes of inflation simply by mechanical, mathematical …
In the 1970s two ways of examining society, neither of them very satisfactory, will probably continue to vie for intellectual favor. One is the New Left rebellion against the organizational rationalism of a complex technological polity. The second is the …
Kent State is a school that reflects mainstream sentiments in American life, and thus serves as a symbol of the pathology of the larger culture. This pathology may be understood in terms of institutions and processes out of scale and …
Arthur London is a Czechoslovak Communist currently living in France. A veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the underground resistance, he held a post in the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs following the Communist seizure of power in 1948. Arrested …
“Your sister is given to government.” “Given to government, Joe?” I was startled, for I had some shadowy idea (and I am afraid I must add, hope) that Joe had divorced her in favor of the Lords of the Admiralty, …
The full importance of Wyziemblo’s report on Marietta Shaginian’s discovery of Lenin’s geneology can be grasped only by one who has lived in the Soviet Union. Deified after his death, Lenin became for Soviet youth a “knight without fear and …
Israel and Vietnam Editor: The threat to Israel’s survival compels democratic socialists to reconsider their attitude toward American foreign policy in the face of unabated Communist expansionism in the Near East as well as Southeast Asia. One such effort is …
Can the American system, which does fairly well at accommodating political or economic conflicts, handle a cultural battle, which begins to shape up more and more like the pointlessly violent strife of hostile religions sects?” So asked the Wall Street …
Two ideas have dominated American thought about education during the last half-century. One is that schooling is the key to mobility and social justice; the other that it might be a major instrument of social and cultural integration. Education has long …
The relationship between the police and the community has become an urgent problem in this nation’s domestic life, as we vainly strive to control the law’s legitimate monopoly on the use of force without deepening the division between Middle America …
I want to put in perspective the great split in the Congress party of India in the middle of 1969, its leftward swing since then, and the hesitation in that swing during the fall of 1970, soon after the party’s …
ONE CAN APPROACH the phenomenon of fascism from various angles. The first analyses, mostly by Communist writers, explained it simply as the dictatorship of monopoly capital (a thesis that still lingers in Franz Neumann’s Behemoth, 1941, and Ignazio Silone’s School …
