“Liberty,” Herbert Marcuse writes, “is self-determination, autonomy … But the subject of this autonomy is never the contingent, private individual as that which he actually is or happens to be; it is rather the individual. . . who is capable …
Delano is entirely typical of the innumerable rural towns that dot the vast stretches of farmland in California’s agricultural valleys. Lying off Highway 99, the main artery through the San Joaquin Valley, it is a thoroughly unimpressive-looking place, with some …
The Great Cultural Revolution which vents its ire against capitalistic hairdos, blasphemous traffic lights, Western books, and revisionist street names baffles the old China hands in Moscow, Washington, and even Havana. What is the meaning of these youthful Red Guards …
“The Negro has been the only American who has constantly made an issue of democracy,” wrote Philip Berrigan, S. J. last year. That he did not overstate his case by very much was shown by the Court’s decision obliterating the …
In the late nineteenth century, Marxism was superimposed on an already formidable revolutionary movement in France. Marxism claimed the faith of proletarians and revolutionary intellectuals alike, as the union of theory and practice which the movement required but would not …
The role of SNCC in the so-called Atlanta riots of September, 1966, gives some perspective on the black-power debate. In the first place, “riot” was probably too strong a term by ghetto standards. There was relatively little firebombing and property …
As lonely sectarian politics goes into eclipse and “coalitionism” comes to the fore, it behooves radicals to watch their step. The terrain is tricky and full of traps. One danger is a permanent by-product of the New Deal, the phenomenon …
Those who do not know the name Mihajlov, will have to conjure with it before long. Not since Milovan Djilas, a symbol of much that is best in politics, has a Yugoslav citizen asserted his humanity with such conviction and …
1. The Betrayal of the French Left The Indochina War was, no doubt, one of the great errors of French policy in this century. That is why the question of responsibility for this costly and futile venture will agitate all …
This story, written in 1923 under the Russian title “They Were Nine,” has never been published in either the Soviet Union or abroad. It appears here in translation for the first time. Although the story clearly belongs to the Red …
Dr. Thomas S. Szasz, in his latest essay into the abuses of psychiatry, considers what he calls the psychiatric denial of the right of trial: the procedure by which the accused is denied trial on the grounds of mental incompetence. …
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote New York: Random House 343 pp. $5.95. Truman Capote’s meticulous story of a quadruple murder on the Kansas plain, its instant success, and some of the critical reactions to it raise a number of …
Seldom have American liberals been so feverishly divided about anything as they are today about the Administration’s Vietnam policies. The rough consensus that liberals had arrived at on both domestic and foreign policy issues has been rudely shattered by the …
Editors: The issues between me and Mr. Hoffman (DISSENT, July—August 1966), each as representatives of points of view, are so important, I believe, both for the fate of academia and the moral texture of our society, that I think space …
Modern Capitalism by Andrew Shonfield Oxford University Press, 456 pp., $4.50 Modern Capitalism describes how advanced capitalist nations manage their economic affairs. It explains how the Germans control their full-employment, rapid-growth economy, how the Swedes retrain labor, how the French …
