Questions on the Freedom Budget

The Freedom Budget is a coherent, pragmatic, democratic, non-apocalyptic program for political action. Unfortunately, the Vietnam War makes it far more utopian than anything proposed by Narodnicki students who allegedly don’t understand politics.

This is not the fault of Bayard Rustin (who has been caricatured by Staughton Lynd as a “labor lieutenant of capitalism”). Rustin is committed to getting what people need to reconstruct their lives through tactically sound po...