In the fall of 1980 a half dozen huge new office buildings, ranging from trapezoidal to octagonal in shape, are thrusting upward to join Houston’s crowded downtown skyline. These edifices, with most of their space already leased to corporate clients, …
Lyndon LaRouche, whatever one thinks of his politics, has at least brought a modicum of excitement to the political scene. John Anderson, who recently gained such wide support, is only new as a candidate for the presidency; his opinions, except …
The Polish workers fought for themselves and their families and won a victory for all of us. In coming issues of Dissent we will try to report extensively on the social basis and political meaning of that victory. Here (we …
On April 13. 1980, a meeting was held at the College of the City of New York at which a plaque was unveiled to honor the students of CCNY who died fighting fascism in Spain. Among the speakers was Joseph …
The Spanish-speaking population constitutes the fastest growing minority group in the United States. The annual growth rate for this group is 2.7 percent, a figure that translates into a doubling, within some 25 years, of the present Hispanic population of …
This past June, at Anaheim, California, the United Automobile Workers’ Union held its 26th constitutional convention. Almost a third of its membership has been left jobless as a result of the recession and the poor planning of the auto corporations. …
I have been doing a slow burn over the Miltie Show on television. With his pixielike smile you have to call him “uncle Millie.” You cannot possibly think of him as Professor Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winner in Economics and …
The history of the labor movement in the South is varied and colorful, though little known. The first Southern unions were formed in the major cities early in the 19th century, especially in the building and printing trades. Shortly after …
After the initial surprise this sort of news causes, I felt a resigned melancholy at the death of Jean-Paul Sartre. I was living in Paris during those years after World War II when his glory and influence were at their …
Long after it should be dead at the box office, Kramer vs. Kramer is still thriving. It is not hard to figure out why. Kramer vs. Kramer is a film with a subject to wrench the heart—a failed New York …
Utopia seems deader than a doornail—no better proof than the recent long academic monographs about its history. Yet, the spirit of utopia erupts again and again in the least expected places. While we are sophisticated to the point of scorning …
When journalists discuss the rise of the Sunbelt, they often invoke the metaphor of war. The editors of Business Week, for example, argue that growth in the Southern Rim and economic decline in the Northeast is a prelude to “a …
Everyone concerned with the relation of forms of ownership to political equality owes a substantial debt to Richard W. Krouse for his lucid analysis. It invites one to deal with the issues with the greatest clarity one can bring to …
Shortly before his death last April, Jean-Paul Sartre gave an extended interview–really, a full-scale review of his intellectual career to a young friend, Benny Levy. This interview appeared in Le Nouvel Observateur on March 10, 17, and 24, 1980, and …
The forcible super-imposition of Marxism as the orthodoxy of the Soviet state obliterated, for some three generations, the spontaneity of Russian thought, creating the unfortunate image of Russians as automatons printing out quotations from Marx and Lenin. In recent years, …
