It is amazing. Thirty years have gone by, yet books about the Spanish Civil War still sell. Every year, a dozen or so new volumes appear and almost always there is a best-seller among them. At least half their readers …
America needs socialism. Our technology has produced unprecedented wealth, rotted great cities, threatened the very air and water, and embittered races, generations, and social classes. Our vision of society, even when most liberal, is too conservative to resolve these contradictions, …
The New Jacobins, The French Communist Party, and the Popular Front, by Daniel R. Brower. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 265 pp. $7.95. There are two themes in this book: (1) the way Stalin used the French Communist party and …
The Wobblies (IWW) stand for modern American radicals as a mythic memory of a virtuous past. There are those of the New Left (perhaps a majority) who do not even remember their informal name, but remember or not, they employ …
“Tempora mutant,” remarked the Roman analysts of social change, to which we can add not only our Amen but also our uncomfortable awareness of the rapidity of change in analyses of change. In the 1950s, Americanists of various disciplines seemed …
Ralph Miliband, of the London School of Economics, has prepared a careful defense of a socialist critique of “advanced capitalist society.” The main burden of this defense is to show that the theory of “democratic pluralism,” which Miliband associates variously …
The following letter, in condensed version, was sent to the New York Times by the editor of Dissent: TO THE EDITOR: It is hard to speak of the Chicago trial with anything but bitterness. What occurred there was not merely …
In a period rich with controversy one should perhaps allow fading quarrels to die. It is not my primary intention to rekindle the heated debate that swirled about Miss Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, but rather to see that book within …
Our usual policy is not to reprint articles from American magazines, but we feel that the one below is important enough to warrant a departure from that policy. It first appeared in the Monthly Review, June 1969, and is here …
The editorial credo of the New York Review of Books, which began publication in February 1963, was what one might expect of a highbrow journal. … Neither time nor space … have been spent on books which are trivial in …
Colonel Joseph Bellas is probably one of those ordinary officers not likely to be remembered in the annals of warfare, but he recently delivered himself of a statement that is unforgettable. The Colonel is in command of a hospital in …
Inflation has become the major economic problem in the U.S. The “fight against inflation” mounted by the Nixon administration is of necessity conducted at the expense of the working poor, much of organized labor, and younger breadwinners with wages and …
Michael Walzer justifiably wants to loosen up the traditional definition of civil disobedience to include the kinds of mildly coercive acts and limited resistance to police that he found in the sit-down strike of 1936- 37. Surely this is one …
The demand for deeper change in American society is an encouraging sign. Liberals, affirming their faith in the country, concede “the system” remains obdurate and search for policies beyond the New Deal. New Leftists, despairing of “the system,” may yet …
THE STATE IN CAPITALIST SOCIETY, by Ralph Miliband. New York: Basic Books. 292 pp. $6.95. RALPH MILIBAND, of the London School of Economics, has prepared a careful defense of a socialist critique of “advanced capitalist society.” The main burden of …
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