Rosa Luxemburg by J.P. Nettl Oxford University Press, 984 pp., $20.20 By the standards of vulgar Hegelians, such as E. H. Carr, this book should never have been written. Hegelians are concerned with the history of those movements and persons …
When the American Civil Liberties Union affirms that “compulsory military service, whether in time of peace or war, is always a severe deprivation of civil liberties,” neither the liberals of the Left nor democratic socialists take sufficient heed. We tend …
As demographers had predicted ever since the 1960’s, many American cities are now predominantly negro, and have elected Negro mayors and city councils. This has generated widespread unrest among the minority White population, and as a result, the worried mayor …
Government has become the economy’s largest buyer and consumer. The government contract, improvised, ad hoc, and largely unexamined, has become an increasingly important device for intervention in public affairs, not only to procure goods and services but also to achieve …
Ever since men climbed down from the trees and found it necessary to establish ground rules, they have fought over hat those rules shall be. They have fought longest, and perhaps most bitterly, over the most fundamental rule of all—the …
In Brownsville, a section of Brooklyn once almost entirely Jewish but now radically changed, the War on Poverty is a misnomer. The wars that occur in Brownsville are mostly wars of the poor against the Economic Opportunity Board and the …
The photograph of Negro children looking at an attractive young teacher while she intently reads them a book has become a symbol of the War on Poverty. It conveys a commitment to the innocent and forgotten child, concern for small …
How do you get into the antipoverty business? In Brooklyn the Bedford—Stuyvesant YMCA, proposing TRY (Training Resources for Youth), may have come up with an ingenious solution. It merely takes a powerful board of directors and an initial investment of …
Little by little, everything that troubles America has become the concern of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Two years ago the OEO was simply a federal command post for the War on Poverty, hardly a modest operation at that. It …
On the first anniversary of Togliatti’s death, the Communist magazine Rinascita published a letter from his successor, Luigi Longo. Several months before he was mortally stricken in a Soviet sanitarium Togliatti informed his then deputy of the rapid worsening of …
For some years now it has been assumed that when the Peoples’ Democracies of Eastern Europe are compared, “they order things better in Yugoslavia.” One begins to doubt it. Since the beginning of 1966 a number of extraordinary sessions of …
When the cry of “black power” burst upon the American landscape, some observers ran for the hills or their shotguns, fearing it signaled the beginning of a racial war. Others, like the new leaders of CORE, hailed it as the …
No matter what one thinks about the criticisms now circulating in regard to the Warren Commission Report, one thing is clear: the assassination of President Kennedy has not been satisfactorily explained. We reach this conclusion without judging the theories advanced …
To some people the growing escalation of the Vietnam War means a rain of napalm, mangled children, human torment, and the dread prospect of a new world war. To others it means something else. “Military planners” and certain kinds of …
Editors: In his interesting discussion on Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (DISSENT, May-June 1966) Lewis Coser expresses the hope that Fanon’s “destructive vision” may lead Western men to compassion, to a sense of fraternity and a lack of …
