I had corresponded with Irving Howe over the last fifteen years, concerning articles for Dissent and related matters, but we had never met. Then, in August and September of 1990, Octavio Paz and his friends at Vuelta organized an international …
I must first apologize for the title of this essay. I am not interested in the crisis of Marxism but in the crisis of politics—I mean, emancipatory politics. What must be called not the “crisis” but the wholesale collapse of …
Has the French Communist party truly changed? If so, to what extent and in what direction? Some evolution is suggested by the line adopted by the Union of the Left, by modifications in the Party’s language, and by the distance it has put between itself …
