AMONG OUR CONTRIBUTORS
tions, and political influence of the workers cratic way, a democratic social order gov- to such an extent that many of them lost erned by concern for the welfare and free- interest, if they...
...tions, and political influence of the workers cratic way, a democratic social order govto such an extent that many of them lost erned by concern for the welfare and freeinterest, if they ever really had any, in a dom of its citizens...
...CZESLAW MILOSZ, Polish poet and critic, author of The Captive Mind (1953) and The History of Polish Literature ( 1969), teaches Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley...
...VICTOR ERLICH, Bensinger Professor of Russian Literature at Yale University, is the author of Russian Formalism, of Gogol, and other works on Russian literature...
...Thus, tic outlook is overdrawn, there is no reason in a superficial way, socialism appears to be to despair...
...But the early ’30s have have shown in recent decades, even under stress, and the amount of public control their tantly, there seems room for at least a moduninterrupted, movement in the Western shown us (for the industrial mass societies) and the ’60s and ’70s (for the Third World) that this authoritarianism may just as likely take on a fascist or militarist coloring...
...world toward some version of social democIs there really no prospect for a demo- racy...
...Under a grant from the Phi Beta Kappa Commis1970, published last fall as a Harper Torchbook...
...He is about to undertake a large-scale reexamination of Russian literary culture in the 1920s...
...But even accepting for a moment incompatible with abundance, and could in- his dark prospect, much will depend on its deed succeed only in agrarian societies extent and pace-and Heil’broner agrees that where the task was the equitable distribu- there are tremendous variables for both...
...sion, he is working on Crooked Paths: Images of the American Future, a sequel to Radical Paradoxes: Dilemmas of the American Left, 1945GEORGE ECKSTEIN, who lives in New York, writes on the social, economic, and cultural US...
...Among his works, available in English, are Toward a Marxist Humanism (1968), The Alienation of Reason: A History of Positive Thought (1968), Marxism and Beyond (1968), and The Devil and Scripture (1974...
...ALAN FOX teaches industrial sociology at the University of Oxford, England...
...HERMAN P. MILLER, who has served as chief of the Population Division at the U.S...
...His most recent book is The Radical Attack on Business, a sympathetic critique of the New Left...
...Heil- Affluence...
...Bureau of the Census, teaches economics at Temple University...
...AMONG OUR CONTRIBUTORS LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI, the Polish philosopher, now PETER CLECAK teaches in the Program in Comparative Culture at the University of California, Irvine...
...JEAN BLOCH-MICHEL, our Paris correspondent, is a French journalist, novelist, and critic...
...He is the author of Rich Man, Poor Man, an analysis of income distribution in the U.S...
...scene for the Frankfurter Hefte and other West German and Swiss publications and radio networks...
...Once erate optimism regarding a continued, if not on the road to authoritarianism, the latter prospect seems by far the more probable...
...University of New York, Stony Brook...
...If Heilbroner’s apocalypdeep-going structural transformation...
...tion of scarce products and the development Thus, there may well be time for effective of resources with scarce capital...
...Considering the degree of adapbroner makes a seemingly convincing case tability the industrial societies by and large for this proposition...
...He has recently published his Selected Poems in English translation...
...adjustments-in the social sphere, in developing new resources and technologies, in a move toward what I have called the “New economies have accepted, however reluc0 lives in exile and teaches at Oxford University in England...
...Can we assume, then, that a new era of scarcity will bring new impulses toward this type of authoritarian “socialism...
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...Among his books are CHARLES PERROW teaches sociology at the State A Sociology of Work in Zndustry (197 1 ), Beyond Contract (1974), and Man Mismanagement (1974...
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