What is going on in the AFL-CIO camp at the moment, performed unconsciously as if Art Buchwald had written the scenario in the manner of his now famous column on what would have happened had Goldwater been elected president, proves …
Costs of college education are rising as rapidly as educational expectations. Yet our search for ways to finance higher education in no way matches the growing determination that all who desire a higher education shall have one. As an instance …
In much of East and Central Africa any marked increase in the standard of living requires radical social change. Colonial governments were concerned for the most part with administration rather than economic development and were reluctant to attempt such changes. …
364 MAY, 1965 Letters from India, as a rule, are written by “outsiders” trying to appear as “insiders.” A Westerner visits India for six weeks, is touched and appalled by the sights, sounds,…
One of the most celebrated passages in the writings of Mark Twain describes the episode where Huckleberry Finn, in helping the runaway slave Jim to freedom, is suddenly seized with guilt and almost demoralized by the enormity of his behavior. …
Dear Sartre: May I take public issue with you for the claims you make in What is Literature? You claim literary importance, even preeminence, for socially committed, or “responsible” writing; you claim also that anyone who happens to be unprejudiced …
For some time after Students for a Democratic Society in 1962 coined the term “participatory democracy,” it was received with more humor than respect by civil rights workers in the South. The…
With this issue DISSENT opens up a discussion of the “new leftism,” in which, as always in our pages, a wide range of opinion will be welcome and each person will speak for himself. One view…
As the call for Consensus continues to roll from the lips of Lyndon B. Johnson, the American Left must begin to search for the sources and qualities of dissidence that could break progressive forces loose from Johnson’s grip. But the …
One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse Beacon Press, 1964, $6.00 Herbert Marcuse’s latest book is an essay in pessimism so profound that it is contradicted by the act of writing it. For …
The following essay, a detailed examination of the 1938 Moscow Trial at which Nikolai Bukharin was the major defendant, is presented here not only for its intrinsic interest, but as a contribution to the discussion of totalitarianism which has been …
Editors: Mr. Greenebaum is entitled to his opinion of my book: The Rise of the Soviet Empire, A Study of Soviet Foreign Policy [DISSENT, Winter 1965]. However, he takes advantage of an obvious printer’s error (1934 for 1936) to argue …
This pamphlet by the distinguished English economist reached DISSENT with a letter from the Monthly Review requesting our appraisal. Our editor referred it to this reviewer as the only member of the DISSENT editorial board who was once in China …
SNCC: The New Abolitionists by Howard Zinn Beacon Press, 1964, $4.95 “SNCC is Willie Shaw in jail in Belzoni, Mississippi!” So a veteran staff worker triumphantly ended a five-minute soliloquy during a SNCC conference last November. The inevitable applause burst …
TOIL AND TROUBLE: A History of American Labor, by Thomas R. Brooks; foreword by A. H. Raskin. New York: Delacorte. xx + 800p. $6.00. There are Civil War buffs who read and reread the chronicles…
