He commanded respect, despite his old-fashioned and dirty appearance. The principal personages of Cuzco greeted him seriously. It was uncomfortable to walk with him because he kneeled down before all the churches and chapels and ostentatiously took off his hat …
WLADYSLAW GOMLJLKA’S SON told me in 1957: “Only fools can believe that there are differences in theory or ideology in the Party. The only differences are purely personal; it is merely a struggle to have one’s hand in the till. …
Author of German Catholics and Hitler’s War, Gordon Zahn teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He has long been active in the peace movement. The article below first appeared in the Catholic World and is reprinted with the …
Ben Seligman was an old-fashioned socialist intellectual. The world is full of “old-fashioned intellectuals” for whom the concept of socialist fraternity has long since lost whatever value it might once have had. And it reverberates to the cries of “socialist …
The appearance of Sexual Politics constitutes an event in publishing rather than in intellectual history. Much of its material and general drift is not only familiar, but even tired; it offers no new research, argument, or proposals, nor is it an …
THE ORIGINS OF SOCIALISM, by George Lichtheim. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. 302 pp. $6.95 (paper $2.95). One of the most intelligent and prolific among contemporary historians of socialism, George Lichtheim displays in almost all of his work two sides: …
This is a good time to remember what we owe the students. Owe, not to one or another group and certainly not to the “actions” of last year, but to the fresh and undogmatic young people who in 1963-64 began …
Rebellion in the Italian universities was already detectable in 1966. The crucible of the student movement, however, was the month-long occupation of the Turin campus in November 1967. From Turin the rebellion spread throughout the country, making a clean sweep of …
The Alliance for Labor Action, after some initial false starts, has held its first conclave formally linking the world’s two largest unions, the United Auto Workers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. ” The friendship was there all the time,” …
As the car moves from the airport through the city, memories return: the giant village of two-story houses we saw 38 years ago is still there. Tall towers in Stalin’s wedding-cake style now shoot up in-between every now and then, …
American armed forces today, including as they do levies of conscripts, do not constitute an army of citizen-soldiers. They are not subject to effective democratic control. Elimination of conscription will not introduce a “mercenary army”: we already have one. On …
As I always tell my students at Johnson City University, it was not easy for educated Americans of the last century to throw off the yoke of European culture, especially that of British literature and opinion. In the first place, …
My title is not a misprint. The liaison between sex and socialism, though of long standing, has always been more an affair than a marriage. Except for occasional outbursts of passion, neither partner has been particularly eager to acknowledge the …
MARTOV: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY, by Israel Getzler. London and New York: Cambridge University Press. 246 pp. $12.50. People who have experienced political defeat like to console themselves with the thought of historical vindication. The past has rejected them, the future …
So we have left footprints on the face of the moon. An admirable feat. We can congratulate ourselves, we can be proud, we have shown that it can be done. Most likely, it had to be done even though the …
