A group of leading members of the Algerian federation of the French Socialist Party recently sent a letter to the Executive Committee of the French Socialist Party protesting the repressive measures of the Mollet government in Algeria. Excerpts follow: The policy which the …
We call the people of South Africa — Black and White Let us speak together of freedom. We call the farmers of the reserves and trust lands. Let us speak of the wide land, and the narrow strips on which …
One of the anachronisms of life in this city is the device used to enforce segregation on the buses: a small wooden sign marked “For Colored Only” with two pegs that fit in slots on the backs of seats. This …
The question, why be radical?, is more urgent today than in those more stringent times when radicalism tended to be instinctive. Especially for the intellectual who finds easy employment in a time of know-how-to-no-purpose, the question is pressing and doubly …
What has been most depressing, and at times downright infuriating, about the recent discussions of the problem of integration is that the terms of discourse tend increasingly to be those of the Southern enemies of equality for the Negroes. And …
1. The modern Infinite. Faust Is dead If there is anything that modern man regards as infinite, it is no longer God; nor is it nature, let alone morality or culture; it is his own power. Creatio ex nihilo, which …
MONTGOMERY, ALA. Suddenly, Montgomery, Alabama, has become one of the world’s most interesting cities. It is a handsome little town, restful for an ex-urbanite. In its center is a spacious circle with gently flowing water-spray, covered by soft lights in the evening. From it …
True enough the Ford people asked Walter Reuther how he was going to collect dues from those automata and Walter Reuther answered how are you going to sell them cars. It is also so that Newsweek said that the Ford …
Who’s Alienated? Editors: If one is to judge from the Winter 1956 DISSENT, a blind spot has afflicted its contributors en masse. I refer to the contention that Marx believed that a simple cancellation of private property, “capitalism minus exploitation,” …
The civil war in Spain ended twenty years ago. That’s what people say. Practical and realistic men view war as a sport. When a public game is over the people cheer the winner. Those present in the stadium go home. …
I The fall of Juan Peron took place in accordance with the basic rhythm of Latin American politics. The dictator is gone; the historical reasons for his emergence remain. Peron was a stop-gap, a shrewd schemer who by suppressing the …
“Poem for Adults” is one of the most remarkable, documents of our time; nothing that has yet appeared in print so fully reveals the despair felt by intellectuals and writers at having to live in the prison-house of totalitarianism.
Because of the immediacy and urgency of the Algerian crisis and the repressive movement it has called forth we are advancing publication of the exclusive interview given to DISSENT by Messali Hadj, Algerian nationalist leader. This was to have appeared in the Summer issue of …
One reads these days many cries of despair, rumblings of gloom, dark hints of the inadequacy of Reason (and reasoners), of the hopelessness of progress. At the best, one expects invocations of Orwell and Tocqueville, at the worst, of Burke …
Among the few successes of DISSENT we count the fact that we have been able in some minor way to establish a link between radicals of an older generation and younger men and women who are untouched and even bored by the rhetoric of the thirties, yet repelled and frightened by the realities of the fifties.
