Latin America is about to enter a new phase of its history that may be more important than either the decade of Castroism or the earlier period when middle-class parties were predominant. The tendency of which I speak is subterranean, …
The following article is reprinted, with permission, from Le Nouvel Observateur (Numero 278, and copyright © Le Nouvel Observateur, 1970). This independent weekly, printed in Paris, has in the past been decidedly sympathetic to student revolt. We need hardly emphasize …
THE GREAT DEPRESSION, b. 1929, d. 1939 (?)—you have to think about those hard times in a context of chronology and generations. For anyone 45 and over the Depression happened too recently; the memory is still painful, we can still …
A Point of Difference Editor: Gordon Haskell’s article in the March—April 1970 issue of DISSENT, entitled “Civil Liberties: To Hell in a Basket?,” is incorrect in a very important respect. After correctly pointing out that the ACLU sought to have …
Let us introduce to our readers a fascinating character—Prince Crazy, also known by his more mundane name of George Demmerle. Prince Crazy, tottering into the advanced age of 39, was known as a “character” in New Left, hippie, and East …
Back in the thirties a small group of Marxists tried, unsuccessfully, to raise the slogan, “Open the Books!” as a way of compelling American giant corporations to disclose the true state of their financial dealings and holdings. It was done …
The situation in the United States is too serious for mere indulgence in pessimism. Whoever reads these lines will, I assume, have shared our feelings of anger and intense dismay over the Nixon policy in Cambodia and the killings at …
“Seven times they raised me off the concrete and threw me down on it. They pinned my arms and shot short jabs to my face. I was punched and dragged by my feet to the stairway. I grabbed the railing …
The following essay was written before Cambodia, Kent and Jackson, hence at a moment the classes of 1970-74 may consider prehistoric. My essay defends a position that has perhaps been passed over by events. I argue that the university as …
The text below, with a few minor changes, was delivered as an address to the 1970 annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in New York City. If this were five or seven years ago, some intellectual profit might …
The rise of Herbert Marcuse from the relative obscurity of his first 65 years to a position as one of the media’s favorite seducers of the young has not been without its cost. Through what the French, in a delightful …
Largely thanks to the writings of C. L. R. James, Ralph Korngold, and others, the great Haitian Negro revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture has in recent years become familiar to American students. In conventional American history texts, it is now even …
Mass university education, in the advanced industrial countries,’ is leading to a shift in the function and character of university-educated personnel. From an elite education for sons of notables preparing to assume leading roles, there is a turn to vocational …
Oppenheimer & Chomsky Editor: I was taken aback by the penultimate sentence in Dennis Wrong’s review article on Noam Chomsky’s American Power and the New Mandarins (DISSENT January—February 1970). Mr. Wrong writes that “his [Chomsky’s] career as a scientist and …
American Labor and United States Foreign Policy, Ronald Radosh. New York: Random House. 463 pp. $10.00. Reluctantly, one must deal harshly with this book. I say reluctantly because the topic —union involvement in overseas affairs— is an important one. The …
