Allard Lowenstein (1929-1980)  

When I was teaching for a few years at Stanford in the early ’60s, that excellent university was as politically dormant as American universities were then supposed to be. Perhaps the first political meeting held on campus in some years …





In Praise of Marx  

At the 1979 meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston, one session was devoted to a debate between Lewis Coser and Lewis Feuer on the subject, “Should We Bury Karl Marx?” Feuer said yes, Coser no. We print here …





Global Distribution  

POLITICAL THEORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, by Charles R. Beitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 212 pp. Cloth, $16.50; paper, $3.95. There are today, in the poor countries of the world, roughly 900 million people who live in absolute poverty—”a condition of …



Technical Fix  

One of the classic pitfalls in setting policies for the social use of technology is the search for a “technical fix”—a resolution of social and political contradictions through the introduction of new technology. The technical fix represents an attempt to …





Letters  

Community Organizing Editors: Michael Walzer’s “Pastoral Retreat of the New Left” is sympathetic [Dissent, Fall 1979]; but some facts are wrong. The only organizations he mentions specifically in his critique of the trends in community organizing are the Midwest Academy, …



Khrushchev in Retirement  

On October 2, 1964, shortly after his meeting with Sukarno, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev flew south for a holiday, which he spent in his newly built dacha not far from Sochi. The dacha was a real palace: its indoor swimming pools …







Blacks & Unions  

This book has many virtues. It is a well-documented, well-written and lively study of one of the crucial periods in modern labor history: the triumph of the UAW-CIO over that citadel of the open shop, the Ford Motor Company, and …





The Arabs of Israel  

As the mass media focus our attention on international relations in the Middle East, we are too often distracted from equally explosive internal affairs. Time bombs tick away and jolt us only when they erupt. (Perhaps an early warning system …



Liberalism’s Fifth Column  

If the New Left put an indelible mark on the ’60s, the neoconservatives will surely become a major part of the image of the past ten years. Peter Steinfels’s anatomy of their ideology would be important if only because he …