AMONG OURSELVES
This first issue of DISSENT contains 112 pages. We hope to stabilize the magazine at 96 pages each issue. To a large extent, the size will depend on the response we get from our readers....
...HELEN MEARS, author of several books on the Far East...
...In Future Issues: NORMAN MAILER has promised an article for the second issue...
...We have received a communication from Peacemakers, 2006 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., enclosing a statement adopted at a conference in Chicago, held in October 1953...
...C. WRIGHT MILLS, well-known sociologist whose most recent book was White Collar, H. BRAND, student of German affairs, GEORGE WOODCOCK, an English...
...with literary and political subjects., LEWIS COSER, former editor of The Modern Review, a veteran socialist writer• whose articles in Politics appeared under the pen-name of Lewis Clair...
...libertarian whose many books have dealt...
...What do you think of this first issue...
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...We want to place DISSENT in as many libraries, both town and college, as we can...
...The sociologist MELVIN TUMIN is working on a study of class relations in the U. S., which may be ready for the second issue...
...This first issue of DISSENT contains 112 pages...
...And if we receive as many subscriptions as we hope to, we will be able to promote the magazine more widely and efficiently, thus gaining more readers...
...Criticisms, too...
...We offer DISSENT to dealers and agents at 40c per copy...
...But we are prepared to send bundles to reliable agents in colleges, cities, etc...
...BERNARD ROSENBERG, a sociologist whose most recent article appeared in The American Scholar...
...This statement in behalf of a "nonviolent revolutionary movement" to promote a "third Camp" position on the war question is too long to print here...
...STANLEY PLASTRIK'S article on England is taken from a fulllength study he has written on that subject...
...it will probably run together with fresh discussions of the same subject...
...It would help if you would ask for it at your local library...
...but in a symposium on the war question that we hope to hold in later issues, a representative of this point of view will be invited to participate...
...For that matter, we'd appreciate having lists of potential subscribers to whom to send sample copies...
...Though our life is now assured for at least a year, we are beginning with an extremely modest budget...
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...HAROLD ORLANS recently published a book analyzing the town planning program of Labor England...
...We have received the translation of a fascinating essay by the famous French historian, ALBERT MATTHIEZ, called "Jacobinism and Bolshevism...
...Winter 1954 • DISSENT • Among Ourselves (Continued) study called "The Image of Socialism" —what vision of the future various socialist tendencies have had...
...There is no evidence, for example, that any of the following have changed: music, art, religion, beliefs about the non-empirical world, and many folkways...
...Since all the work on DISSENT is being done on a volunteer basis, we are not too well equipped to take care of bundle orders...
...DISSENT badly needs clerical help...
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...There will be a special section called "Europe and America," containing a discussion of "neutralism," a report on the conference of the Committee for Cultural Freedom held on this subject, and a letter from a French socialist...
...112 • DISSENT • Winter 1954...
...HAROLD ORLANS is to do a piece on Democracy and Social Planning...
...SIDNEY LENS, back from a long tour of Europe, has promised a report on European Socialism...
...Subscriptions remain, however, our main goal...
...returns permitted...
...The conclusion of same article: "While this paper has discussed some of the long-run consequences of industrialization for underdeveloped areas, it does not imply that there cannot be any cultural continuity...
...Our Contributors: IRVING HOWE, author of several literary and political books, presently at work on a history of the U. S. Communist Party...
...Would you like to see the emphasis of the magazine shifted in one or another direction...
...We hope to stabilize the magazine at 96 pages each issue...
...To a large extent, the size will depend on the response we get from our readers...
...The editors of DISSENT are widely scattered, and reading of manuscripts could be hastened by having several copies...
...A sample mailing of the first issue has gone out to several hundred college libraries, but we may have missed yours...
...LEWIS COSER and IRVING HOWE are collaborating on a (Continued on next page) The Academic Mind The opening of the lead article in American Sociological Review, October, 1953: "It is the main thesis of this paper that the industrialization of nonmachine societies will eventually lead to the development of new societal patterns...
...We are very eager to receive comments from readers, and we hope to print some in the next issue...
...And we are planning to translate from the German sociologist MAX SCHELER a study of the renegade as a social type...
Vol. 1 • January 1954 • No. 1
