Letters

Letters

“Income Revolution”

Editors:
May I be permitted a comment on the exchange between Gabriel Kolko and Henry Pachter concerning the “Income Revolution” in America? [DISSENT, Summer 1957].

In general, I sympathize with Kolko’s views on this matter, but it seems to me that on one important point he has been somewhat less than fair to—or has failed to understand—Pachter’s argument. Pachter has asserted that some of the poverty cited by Kolko is due to “special circumstances,” i.e., the discrimination suffered by racial and other minorities, rather than to the workings of the capitalist system. Kolko replied by noting sarcastically that “Mr. Pachter i...