Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Mother Jones Mr. Adam Hochschild practicing personal therapy on page five of the very latest issue of Mother Jones, the bed-wetters' Bible: Aside from the new-parent leaves, we try...
...June 1979] Yale Alumni Magazine To a grateful Republic, the Yale Alumni Magazine reports on the public-spirited exertions of an exuberant graduate of the class of '78, a genuine 1970s super-American, a modern Babbitt: He is living in a friendly Washington neighborhood, already having attended "two block parties with music, dancing and ethnic food, all in the streets...
...I would like to hold and share the conviction that there is a better alternative-for if socialism is not the alternative to the militarism, repression, instability, and injustice of capitalism, what is...
...They live in our slums and our ghettos...
...He never mentioned woman, she, her, womankind and/or her problems, her wisdom, her creativity, her accomplishments...
...Or consider the current conflict between Kampuchea and Vietnam: How is it possible for two socialist states to wage war against each other...
...One other option is to apply for the one-year M.A...
...The book is dedicated to Salvador Allende, and riot even Shirley MacLaine would have guessed its shameful contents: We all have the sense, that an epoch in human history is coming to an end...
...Richard Falk, a Beethoven in the foreign policy art, famous for his many requiems to the American Republic and for numerous symphonies to foreign brutality: One of Washington's problems in formulating a position toward Khomeini's movement may be its relative ignorance of the ayatollah's philosophy and of Shi'ite Moslem doctrine generally...
...That is, people must work here to stop the United States from running amok in the Third World...
...Contrary to the superficial reports in the American press about his attitude toward Jews, women, and others, Khomeini's Islamic republic can be expected to have a doctrine of social justice at its core...
...And we have yet to provide childcare benefits such as those enjoyed by our friends at Boston's The Real Paper...
...It's everything...
...Indeed, we can be legitimately criticized on some points...
...It is entirely different from the harsher Sunni variety that currently prevails in Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Pakistan, among other Moslem nations...
...I'll soon be working on allocation plans for natural gas pipelines which determine who gets gas...
...The bourgeois ideology, the ideology of the sham consensus, of a hierarchy of power, of statutory inequality among individuals and nations, the crazy ideology of collaboration between share capital and the labour of exploited human beings, is nearly over and done with...
...Whatever its theoretical merits, collective consensus is ill-suited to getting much done...
...program in public policy at the London School of Economics...
...The United States has been, since 1975, itching to be able to portray the Vietnamese as imperialists in Southeast Asia, with the invasion of Cambodia being the first step...
...It's not just sex they're deprived of...
...A clear benefit for the United States is that this position discredits Vietnam in the eyes of not only people who had been part of the anti-war movement here, but also a whole new generation...
...It no longer convinces anyone...
...Wilma Scott Heide, former Grand Kleagle of the National Organization for Women, divulges .the results of her recent philological inquiries: Recently on my car radio, a man who sounded very gentle and caring was talking about the need for nonviolence in all human behavior and relationships...
...Alas and alack: How can one justify, for instance, the forced migrations in People's Kampuchea (Cambodia...
...If anything, this should confirm for people the central importance of fighting for control over this country's foreign policy...
...Alternatively, of course, I'll go to some law school...
...Spring 1979] The Indianapolis Star Dr...
...March 1 April 1979...
...little specialization...
...staff meetings on all issues...
...To exclude women from consideration and from humanity-as he did- was in itself a spiritual violence to those excluded and a belittlement of all people's spirits...
...The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission work in this area is integral to future distribution of energy supplies, patterns of consumption, and the degree to which many homeowners will suffer from the energy crisis, if the job doesn't live up to this potential, though, I'll begin to look for a job related to civil rights or social welfare issues...
...At first he seemed persuasive and committed...
...However different this may be from Harper's or The Atlantic, you'd be surprised how tame it sounds to many a Left purist...
...November 1978] Mother Jones Some of the visionaries who brought peace and freedom to Vietnam now solemnly answer Mother Jones' vexed query, ''What the hell is going on in Southeast Asia...
...A heavy responsibility for this falls on the United States, which refused to give the aid that it had promised and which then kept dangling recognition in front of the Vietnamese but always postponing it....I think all of this isolated Vietnam, which, after all, had been given the almost impossible task of trying to reconstruct its society after years of destruction...
...But I did and had to, and I want to tell you why...
...decisions by collective "consensus...
...As for his job, at the Department of Energy, Dan reports that it has been "dull so far, but they're finally giving me some responsibility and I'm gradually getting excited...
...Dave Bellinger I think the United States wanted to force Vietnam into the Soviet camp and to increase polarization within Southeast Asia...
...Who could disagree with such an apparently kind man...
...It's a matter of survival...
...We came away feeling that, for us anyway, it didn't work...
...Switzerland: The Awful Truth Jean Ziegler [Harper & Row, 1979] The Humanist Crisp analysis and the prophesy of good things ahead for the woebegone rapist, from Miss Gina Allen, coauthor of Intimacy: Sensitivity, Sex, and the Art of Love, a respected do-it-yourself manual: According to sociological researchers (notably Menachem Amir, in Philadelphia) and the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Reports, 90 percent of all the apprehended rapists come from the bottom of the economic ladder...
...Under the pressures of economic blockades and political isolation by the West, usually headed by the United States, the ability to adhere to socialist principles eventually disintegrates...
...from all indications, it will be flexible in interpreting the Koran, keeping the "book of research" open to amendment and adaptation based on contemporary needs and aspirations...
...I've already started my applications- what a bore...
...Whatever they learn in the home, or-on the streets, they learn that they must live by violence...
...I think there's a pretty unmistakable pattern emerging now, which the changes in China and now Vietnam's invasion point toward...
...everyone doing their own typing...
...Violently they take what they can from an affluent society that dangles its goodies before them-on billboards and television-and denies them even the basic essentials of a civilized life...
...like Columbia (or U. Tampa by the Beach...
...As for the Soviet Union, how can one explain its suppression of free speech, free press, and free trade unions years after the revolution...
...The entourage around Khomeini, in fact, has had considerable involvement in human rights activities and is committed to a struggle against all forms of oppression...
...But a good many Movement organizations go further still: equal salaries for all...
...It could be maintained by members of the community, and it would help ease the injured feelings of the neighbors...
...Adam Hochschild practicing personal therapy on page five of the very latest issue of Mother Jones, the bed-wetters' Bible: Aside from the new-parent leaves, we try to put into practice in the office some of the other ideas we cover in the magazine...
...Most Americans don't even think about the destructive things the United States did, like plowing up rubber trees and leaving chemicals and pollutants, which made the shrimp inedible and destroyed the fertility of a lot of the soil for years...
...March 1979] . Chicago Tribune Evidence that humane sensibility has finally come to the Windy City, as a reader of the illustrious Chicago Tribune demonstrates with her elegant suggestion for future use of the last earthly possession of Mr...
...Marx and peerless peace activist, begins to doubt...
...Right now, I'm seriously thinking of taking a second year off to work...
...The constitution he proposes has been drafted by political moderates with a strong belief in minority rights...
...and thereby offer still more evidence of the Left's amusing lust for preposterosity: At the present time, it is very clear that China and Vietnam consider each other serious enemies...
...I wish I could resolve these contradictions for myself in simple, unambiguous terms-.-Like most people, I would like to cherish the vision of a beautiful tomorrow...
...We took a hard look at that model and even experimented with some aspects of it in our early months...
...We need to hire more Third World staff members, for example...
...Let us know when you find another general-audience magazine a majority of whose editors, and whose art director, managing editor, advertising director and business manager are all women...
...Perhaps a socialist regime must deny democratic prerogatives when it comes to power in order to forestall a counterrevolution-but for sixty-one years...
...It would also be a way of remembering all the people who were buried there, Shirley Jocobek {March 27, 1979] The Great Books Series Stirring passages from a book that is exigent reading for every nervous wreck in the Republic, Switzerland: The Awful Truth...
...March 27, 1979] The Progressive Sidney Lens, faithful disciple of Dr...
...Lowell Finley [April 1979] Foreign Policy A stupendous elucidation of the Aya-tollah Khomeini's Divine Fascism from Dr...
...Worse still, how can socialist China regard socialist Russia as its chief enemy and insist, in its domestic and foreign propaganda, that war with the Soviet Union is "inevitable...
...Vietnam, faced with this task, was really forced to come into a much closer relationship with the Soviet Union than, from my understanding from my five or six visits to Vietnam, they would have chosen...
...Now we can say-with the libertarians of the Jura in the time of the First International-"the truce and the lying arc over...
...Among the goodies are beautiful female sex objects...
...Peace to mankind- but war to the capitalist system...
...This man with the gentle voice spoke of man and his world, of mankind and his alienation from himself...
...Fair hiring...
...John Wayne Gacy, accused murderer of 33 young men: PALOS PARK-Would it be possible to establish a greenhouse on the John Wayne Gacy property once the law has run its course...
...For so long, we- socialists, revolutionaries-have been night-watchmen, the ancestors, if you like, of the future...
Vol. 12 • July 1979 • No. 7
