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Soviet Transformation  

Irving Howe and Michael Walzer ▪ Spring 1990

Nothing in our past thinking, or in anyone else’s, prepared us for the remarkable turn of events in the Soviet Union. So much the worse for theory, so much the better for life! The word “historic” has been reduced to …



Stanley Plastrik (1915-1981)  

Irving Howe and Michael Walzer ▪

The other day I was asked to speak at a gathering on “the moral basis of socialism.” I was somewhat taken aback since it was not clear to me whether socialism can claim a moral basis apart from that of …



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