Here is another piece continuing the informal discussion among Dissent editors on foreign policyissues after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Different views appeared in the previous two issues; there may be others in the next one. — EDS. The election …
To those who force all political shadings into a Right-Left spectrum, China’s “cultural revolution” looked like a further move to the “Left,” a more radical expression of Communism. Such facile judgments should have been checked against the more detailed information …
I take it for granted that in a modern society we are all implicated in moral responsibility for what the state of which we are citizens does or doesn’t do. Thus remediable urban blight, the neglect of retarded children, the …
The Spring Time of Freedom: The Evolution of Developing Societies by William McCord Oxford University Press, 1965, 330 pp., $6.00 Favelados, the slum dwellers in Sao Paulo’s shantytowns, are the subject of a moving autobiography, Child of the Dark, by …
I envy the Russians. They destroy their discarded leaders. If a Khrushchev has to be deposed, he is utterly done in, made into an unperson, prevented from speaking in his own behalf, rendered incapable of hurling accusations against former associates …
In the capitalist economy business decisions are made by the owners of resources; the latter may take the form of money, real estate, machinery and equipment, or of claims and rights to use these resources or to dispose of them, …
POLITICAL JUSTICE. THE USE OF LEGAL PROCEDURE FOR POLITI CAL ENDS, by Otto Kirchheimer. Princeton University Press, 1961, 452 pp. At the outset, Dr. Kirchheimer explains that his title refers not to “the search for an ideal order” but to …
MARX’S CONCEPT OF MAN, by Erich Fromm (with a translation from Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts by T. B. Bottomore). Frederick Ungar, New York, 1961. 260 pp. Hearing the old Lutheran chorals in a Bach oratorio, one is astonished to …
Khrushchev always reminds me of Prussia’s Sergeant-King, Frederick William, who used to exclaim “but ye ought to love me” while caning his subjects. No doubt, he would rather be loved than feared and prefers voluntary to forced assent. Unfortunately he …
There is more than manner and know-how in Mr. George Kennan’s urbane style; he also is a nineteenth-century statesman, and his political wisdom comes from the school of Castlereagh and Talleyrand. He does not just disagree with this or that …
“New Frontiers” and “Leadership” will now replace the golf links and committee rule. Taking, for the while, at face value the claims of the new administration, I wish to present my own bill as a simple voter, who is especially …
THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, by W. W. Rostow. A Non-Communist Manifesto, Cambridge University Press. A pretentious title leads to a pretentious foreword, which leads to a very unpretentious introduction in which the author disclaims what he is doing. Having …
When the Roman Empire had grown old and tired it began to rely, for the defense of its ramparts, less and less on the prowess of its citizens; instead, it paid subsidia to its minor allies, and even tributum to …
The verb, to co-exist, only has plural forms: we co-exist. Moreover, its voices are passive or reflexive: I suffer your co-existence with me. The relationship so described is neither war nor peace; but it implies a tacit understanding that two …
In publishing this article more than one year after it was written, the editors are most uncharitable to the author. But they may be doing a service to those who shared his illusions during the time of the million flowers. …
