Hal Draper

We are saddened by the news that Hal Draper died this past January in Berkeley, California, at age seventy-five. Though our relations were strained by political differences—or differences in emphasis— we recall the many years of friendship as participants in the socialist movement going back to the 1930s. Hal never wrote for Dissent; in his view we lacked a sufficiently hard political program. We felt that Hal tended to be rigid, even sectarian, though we never questioned his sharp...