To the Editors: I read your magazine regularly and find it interesting, informative and also puzzling. What puzzles me is that you advocate socialism and at the same time oppose social reforms. I always thought that socialists saw nothing inconsistent in working for the establishment of socialism while at the same time participating in...
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Irving Cantor
What about the Meantime?
Mr. Hicks Goes From Moscow
THE WESTERN SOCIALIST, Jan-Feb 1955 Review of WHERE WE CAME OUT, Viking Press, 1954 Four years ago Richard Crossman edited a work in which six intellectuals, three members, and three sympathizers, of various Communist Parties, elaborated on why they had been attracted to these Communist Parties, and how they had become disillusioned with them....
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The Unions “Fight” Unemployment
Once again, in order to “adjust itself to the market,” American capitalism has found it necessary to throw workers out on the street. The latest government figures released (February 11) place the unemployed at 3,078,000, or 5% of the labor force. Even these figures are challenged as too low. Walter Reuther, president of the...
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The Wildcat Strike
The Western Socialist, July-August, 1953 The workers mill around in small groups. A buzz of excitement sweeps through the room and spreads rapidly. The huge steel-cutting machines lapse into silence. The conveyor lines halt as if struck dead by some unseen hand. Everything is at a standstill. A wildcat strike is being born. The...
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Living With Crisis
Living With Crisis By Fritz Sternberg In this, his latest work, subtitled “The Battle Against Depression and War,” Fritz Sternberg has written another provocative exposition of his theory of the “Progressive Left.” In doing so, he not only again throws down a challenge to revolutionary socialism he also poses the...
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