This book, first published in 1979, is a representative sample of some of the best articles that have appeared in DISSENT, the American democratic socialist quarterly. They provide a two-sided view of political and social action with the democratic society of the USA.
Part
1. Visions of the Future
1. What Socialists Would Do in America
If They Could Michael Harrington
2. Three Economic Models: Capitalism, the
Welfare State and Socialism Henry M. Pachter
3. Roots of the Socialist
Dilemma Robert L. Heilbroner
4. Socialism and Liberalism: Articles of
Conciliation? Irving Howe Part
2. America in Turmoil
5. The Devolution of
Democracy Paul Goodman
6. Middle-Class Workers and the New Politics Brendan
Sexton
7. Women Terms of Liberation Alice S. Rossi
8. The Agonies of Black
Militancy Jervis Anderson
9. The Counterculture: Tranquilizer or
Revolutionary Ideology? Jesse Pitts
10. Death Warrant for the Cities? David
M. Muchnick
11. On the Culture of Shiftlessness Chandler Davidson
12.
Ghosts of Vietnam Theodore Draper
13. The Commune as Perverse Utopia Rose L.
Coser and Lewis Coser Part
3. Ideas on Politics and Culture
14. Marxism:
Criticism and/or Action Harold Rosenberg
15. The Idea of Community: a
Critique Dennis H. Wrong
16. Pure Tolerance David Spitz
17. Requiem for
Utopia Erazim V. Kohak
18. In Defence of Equality Michael Walzer
19. Twilight
of Revolution Octavio Paz
20. Solzhenitsyns Gulag Archipelago: Part II Roy
Medvedev
21. All That is Solid Melts into Air Marshall Berman Part
4.
Short Subjects
22. Prosperity And Then What? Ignazio Silone
23. Blood
Orange, or Violence in the Movies David Bromwich
24. The Russian Revolution
Revisited Stanley Plastrik
25. Dreams and Nightmares Joseph Clark
26.
Metaphors of Life and Death Murray Hausknecht
Irving Howe
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