A challenge to nuclear power requires an assault upon the basic corporate priorities that undergird the entire economy. However, one suspects that many participants in the growing antinuclear movement, including some who consider themselves to be the most militant, have …
On this eve of the 1980s, American capitalism is in the midst of a crisis that bewilders the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives. The nation is, in a sense, in a period resembling the years between 1919 and …
The democratization of the investment process is the key to a socialist strategy for full employment during the short and medium term. In saying this, I do not suggest that we socialists have “the” answer. There is no such thing. …
I Let me begin this outline of the institutions of international inequity with a few definitions. That is not a matter of formalities, but it touches upon a fundamental, underlying concept: that underdevelopment is not a “thing.” What is critical …
During the next four years the long-run contradictions of American society, above all its hostility to full employment, are going to be its short-run problems. The achievement of even significant reform will require a challenge to the basic corporate domination …
First, let me free myself of certain political constraints in this brief speculation about the Jimmy Carter phenomenon. That done, I think the analysis can be made much more candidly. I intend to vote for Carter and to work as …
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels described “conservative, or bourgeois, socialism.” A part of the bourgeoisie [they wrote] wants to remedy social grievances in order to ensure the stability of bourgeois society. . . . They want to have …
The following summary of socialist ideas for reshaping the American economy is taken from testimony that Michael Harrington, chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, gave before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress last November. Harrington began with …
There will be a marked increase in national economic planning and public ownership in the United States during the next five or so years. Such a prediction, one might suppose, should immediately call forth leftist hurrahs. But if we analyze …
The current crisis of the capitalist system seems so deep that even investment bankers, like Felix Rohatyn of Lazard Freres, are advocating “state planning of the economy.” There is, therefore, no question as to whether there will be structural change …
The current inflation-recession is a crisis of the capitalist system. At first glance, this proposition may seem absurd. It is all but universally agreed, Left, Right, and Center, that two of the most important causes of our present dismal plight …
Sometimes, Emile Durkheim once remarked, a society develops a collective sadness. That is obviously the case with America today. The Harris poll, showing a pervasive uneasiness in this country, only confirms what all of us instinctively know. An optimistic and …
The energy crisis illuminates the nature of late-capitalist society. Let us hope that it will also make possible a political challenge to it. I will not argue the details of this statement. Dankwart Rustow’s article in this issue provides ample …
In recent years the American working class has been called conservative, militant, reactionary, progressive, authoritarian, social democratic and, the unkindest cut of all, nonexistent. Except for the last, all the labels fit. The labor movement—I sharpen the focus on the …
The failures of the welfare state in the sixties have served as stimulus for, and rationale of, the rise of neoconservative thought in the seventies. The neoconservative ideologues base themselves on what they regard as the data of the sixties, …
