The views of Isaac Deutscher, author of biographies of Stalin and Trotsky, on the future developments of Russian society have already occasioned much controversy. The article printed below presents what is perhaps the most systematic and concise exposition of his …
The uneven development of world economy has resulted in a disastrous split between the industrialized West and primitive East; but it has also brought another split, at the moment quite as important, between the United States and its own allies. …
Such is the nature of the operations of the Communist party that all evidence about its key work must necessarily come from informers—that is, from those who have seen it from the inside. As Burnham points out, the pejorative connotations …
CLASS, STATUS AND POWER: A READER IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION. Edited by Reinhard Bendix and Seymour Lipset. The Free Press. Glencoe, Illinois. 725 pp. $6. Though designed as a college text, this book is so excellently done that it will interest …
The following brief articles comment upon a letter from M. Rubel which appeared in the first issue of DISSENT. A distinguished French student of Marxism, M. Rubel, raised the question whether the word “socialism” has become so contaminated and vulgarized …
For the past eighty years the basic economic cause of agrarian movements in the U. S., as well as of government efforts to subsidize agriculture, has been the difference between prices received and prices paid by the farmer. None of …
At so late and unhappy a moment, can one still specify what the vision of socialism means or should mean? Is the idea of utopia itself still a tolerable one?
For American radicals these are not times of easy political choice. They are all the more difficult if we continue to think in terms of elections, candidates and parties.
Political thinking, like merchandising, has its fashions.
This first issue of DISSENT contains 112 pages. We hope to stabilize the magazine at 96 pages each issue. To a large extent, the size will depend on the response we get from our readers. Though our life is now …
Today, anyone who insists upon describing himself as a socialist runs the great risk of not being immediately understood.
The three letters that appear below are translated into English for the first time. They illustrate the two sides of Rosa Luxemburg: a tough and combative political fighter and a woman of fine sensibilities.
Imagine Don Quixote without his horse and his drooping whiskers, and you will get a fair idea of what George Orwell looked like.
In this unsympathetic book Thorstein Veblen is not the subject, he is the victim.
The confusion of modern politics runs so deep, the breakdown of those traditional responses which held together a more or less “enlightened” public is so complete, that one no longer knows what feeling an event is likely to evoke among people of some political sophistication, particularly among people of political sophistication.
