Among all the spurious “sciences” that have grown up around the notion that to abstract one’s propositions from reality is to be truly “scientific,” most pernicious has been the new “science” of strategy. Armed by their supposed knowledge of game …
The people of the emerging nations, as Stanley Diamond has rightly said (“Modern Africa: the Pains of Independence,” DISSENT, Spring 1963), need our “humane insight, fraternal sympathy, and concrete historical perceptions.” They also have a right to constructive criticism. To …
Liberals like to regard the Alliance for Progress as a bold, even revolutionary conception. In practice, as in Honduras, it has become something very different, so different that we may speak of two Alliances for Progress. The first envisions the …
The siege against the market system, or more accurately, against its sustaining folklore, grows stronger, “end of ideology” or not. With the appearance of David BazeIon’s The Paper Economy (Random House; $6.95), it undergoes an assault a notch more devastating …
James Baldwin first came to the notice of the American literary public not through his own fiction but as author of an impassioned criticism of the conventional Negro novel. In 1949 he published in Partisan Review an essay called “Everybody’s …
The debate sparked by Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem is almost as disturbing as the book itself. A good many qualified reviewers in various journals have attacked not only Miss Arendt’s views but the scholarship on which her conclusions are …
In the midst of the great organizing drive of the CIO, which was to culminate in the solid establishment of industrial unionism in the United States, John L. Lewis came to Detroit to address a mass meeting. Some ten thousand …
The success of the March on Washington is now a part of American history. But its ramifying effects on the civil rights revolution will be long in unfolding. Certainly the moral impact of the March was incalculable. As one of …
New York’s public school teachers, by a show of militancy, unity and determination, scored a striking victory in early September. More, their victory pushed open new doors through which the declining labor movement could easily march if its leadership would …
Pursue a disastrous policy long enough, and the outcome is inevitable. Politics is a ruthless discipline; error and stupidity exact a cruel price. Supporting the authoritarian Diem in the name of anti-Communism, the U.S. helped spawn the odious Nhus, which …
Khrushchev is no less a Russian Communist today than yesterday, nor is Mao Tse-tung more of a Chinese Stalinist than he was the day before. The thaw did not, so to speak, produce the recent violence of conflict between the …
Within five years, the United States will have hardened into a vast thermonuclear missile base. While an underformed citizenry goes about its usual business, the military establishment has developed, and plans to continue developing, a strategic atomic force, the dimensions …
for the Negro liberation movement in the future as it has in the past, or should it be replaced by new methods? If so, which methods? Should the liberation movement try to play a more directly political role? Should it …
For a long time, we of the anti-Communist Left have been politically dispossessed. There is no home for us in either of the big national parties. There never was. Every few years, a few of our breed will allow themselves …
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