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 …
There is an air of creeping repression in Washington. You can detect it in many ways. Civil rights enforcement at Health, Education and Welfare is at low ebb. A voting bill is beaten in the House of Representatives, albeit narrowly. …
Rossana Rossanda is one of the keenest and most turbulent minds womanhood has contributed to international Communism since the death of Rosa Luxemburg. A long-time militant of the Italian party (PCI), she was appointed in 1963 head of the Cultural …
The theater of the absurd is now being enacted on the public scene. Letters recently sent to a number of corporations which were subsequently bombed stated that the bomb throwers were full of loving care for mankind and therefore felt …
We have recently had some interesting new political books in France. La Nouvelle Société, by Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the Premier of France; Le Grand Tournant du Socialisme, by Roger Garaudy, a leading Communist intellectual; and Le Manifeste du Parti Radical, by …
What are the major sources of opposition to the Vietnam war? Who are the hawks? What does the “silent majority” really think? Among political commentators, public officials, and even antiwar leaders, there has been a general—and unexamined—agreement that working-class citizens …
I do not understand what the fuss is about. These complaining editorials, these worried, pained people—when the solution stares us in the face. Yes, there is that huge stockpile of deadly nerve gas that nobody knows what to do with. …
The following document, here published in English for the first time, comes from a group of 47 prisoners being held in the political prison, La Cabana, in Cuba. The document is dated December 1969. It was submitted by the prisoners …
I should like to open a political discussion about a problem that seems unprecedented, especially in France and Italy. In both countries there are mass Communist parties, allied with the Moscow wing of Communism. These are perhaps the largest, certainly …
The South may be changing, but the old South has not disappeared. In May 1969, for example, an all-white federal court jury in Meridian, Mississippi, acquitted three Ku Klux Klansmen accused of murdering a black civil rights leader and could …
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 …
