Students and faculty at the University of Warsaw can roughly be divided into two groups: one group of orthodox Marxists, which consists of about 5-10 per cent of the University population—and the majority group of liberal Marxists which can be …
As the protests of 1963 and ’64 with their picketing of “Jim Crow” construction projects begin to fade into history, so does the unequivocal blessing the AFL—CIO gave to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its fair employment provisions. Certainly, …
Cassandra, daughter of King Priam of Troy, (we are told) had her ears licked by a serpent while asleep and so got her prophetic gift: forever after she was fated to foretell the evil results of successive events. All civilizations …
In that confusing variety of movements and moods lumped together as “the new radicalism,” no one is more visible than Susan Sontag. This is in part a tribute to her own variety, for unlike many others, she is not easily …
One of the more tantalizing statistics of the decade is this: for a mere $11 billion we could raise every poor American above the poverty line as poverty is currently and officially defined—an income below $3,130 for a family of …
Quoting an interview with the veteran socialist, Akram Hourani, Kamel Abu Jaber reports that when asked to whom he felt closer—a British socialist or a Saudi Arabian Sheikh, Hourani replied, “the Saudi Arabian Sheikh without any question.” Events of the …
In his article “Moral Judgment in Time of War” (DISSENT, May-June 1967) Michael Walzer has stated the case well for the need of a moral judgment applicable within the context of war. I think, though, that his argument is incomplete …
Within this issue we print some comments on the riots by Bayard Rustin, comments with which I agree. We shall also have before long the inevitable, and hopefully useful, studies by the sociologists. While awaiting their reports, however, we need …
Right now John Lewis is a homeless man. Chairman of SNCC during its most active and heroic period, one of the first Freedom Riders, arrested innumerable times in the Deep South, and a vividly radical speaker at the 1963 March …
At one point, shortly before war broke out in the Mideast, it seemed that the very survival of Israel was at stake. To say this was not merely an emotional reaction, though emotion was certainly and legitimately involved. Nasser had …
This is a work of humane scholarship, in a field of overwhelming importance, which it would be hard to overpraise. Professor Green has obviously read virtually the whole literature of this field, at least in English, and his bibliography alone …
The President’s decision to escalate the Vietnam War destroys whatever small chance there was for negotiations in the near future and plunges the United States into a major crisis. Among the growing number of Americans who see this war as …
June 12, 1967 I have talked to a number of citizens of Jewish descent —some of whom have relatives in Israel or have lived there—who, like me, have been troubled by the ruthless actions of the Tel Aviv government in …
Portugal, the poor cousin of the Western alliance, has over 120,000 troops fighting four wars against nationalist rebels in its African possessions—Angola, Mozambique, Cabinada, and Guinea—at an annual cost of over $132 million. Nearly half the troops are in Mozambique …
Many young, middleclass radicals know little more about organized labor in the United States than that it is “stagnant,” “sclerotic,” and “inert.” Such epithets would fit even better than they do if Walter Reuther had not recently applied all of …
