I Question: Mr. Abrahams, what does Africa mean to you? Answer: It means the people I know most intimately, the people with whom I grew up. It’s emotional; subjective. It is one of those complex things that goes into the …
Which shall one stress—the extent to which important changes have occurred or the extent to which Russian society under Khrushchev remains continuous with that under Stalin? It depends on the frame of discourse. In trying to foresee the consequences of …
Algeria is the key to the North African question. It is through her that the French will either perish or come back to life. Heaven knows, it is not a matter of abandoning the security, honestly acquired property and legitimate …
Each night, in the midst of exhausting work, I try to state the problem anew, to gather the threads, to see my way clear. What can I tell you that you don’t know? Nothing. The frightening atmosphere—the climate of hate …
Africa is a figment of the white man’s fears. Actually, there is no political, economic or social unit which can be called Africa; there is only a collection of colonial areas, emerging states, tribal divisions, towns, villages, cities. Even as …
A group of leading members of the Algerian federation of the French Socialist Party recently sent a letter to the Executive Committee of the French Socialist Party protesting the repressive measures of the Mollet government in Algeria. Excerpts follow: The policy which the …
We call the people of South Africa — Black and White Let us speak together of freedom. We call the farmers of the reserves and trust lands. Let us speak of the wide land, and the narrow strips on which …
One of the anachronisms of life in this city is the device used to enforce segregation on the buses: a small wooden sign marked “For Colored Only” with two pegs that fit in slots on the backs of seats. This …
The question, why be radical?, is more urgent today than in those more stringent times when radicalism tended to be instinctive. Especially for the intellectual who finds easy employment in a time of know-how-to-no-purpose, the question is pressing and doubly …
What has been most depressing, and at times downright infuriating, about the recent discussions of the problem of integration is that the terms of discourse tend increasingly to be those of the Southern enemies of equality for the Negroes. And …
1. The modern Infinite. Faust Is dead If there is anything that modern man regards as infinite, it is no longer God; nor is it nature, let alone morality or culture; it is his own power. Creatio ex nihilo, which …
MONTGOMERY, ALA. Suddenly, Montgomery, Alabama, has become one of the world’s most interesting cities. It is a handsome little town, restful for an ex-urbanite. In its center is a spacious circle with gently flowing water-spray, covered by soft lights in the evening. From it …
True enough the Ford people asked Walter Reuther how he was going to collect dues from those automata and Walter Reuther answered how are you going to sell them cars. It is also so that Newsweek said that the Ford …
Who’s Alienated? Editors: If one is to judge from the Winter 1956 DISSENT, a blind spot has afflicted its contributors en masse. I refer to the contention that Marx believed that a simple cancellation of private property, “capitalism minus exploitation,” …
The civil war in Spain ended twenty years ago. That’s what people say. Practical and realistic men view war as a sport. When a public game is over the people cheer the winner. Those present in the stadium go home. …
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