Washington and the Nation
Washington and the Nation American Tycoon Admires Russian Tycoon • Recommended reading: The November issue of The American Magazine for the article by Kay Kllis on " Will Russia t'ommunise...
...The H e r o In History...
...There ia no danger here 'as there is in the United States' (emphasis by Ellis) that the rountry will go communistic...
...Professor Hook Is the author of The Metaphysics of Pragmatism...
...Robert Alexander— POLITICS IN ENGLAND—Regular dispatches an political events ia Britain...
...Russians have pretty much lost interest in ideologies...
...Prat...
...Hit book, "The Economics of Control," was published recently by Macmlllan...
...Russians would be upset if I wrote about their classes,' because officially, they live In a classleas land...
...M a x Eastman— IN MY OPINION—Some pithy remarks by a leading critic and essayist...
...And — Ott* Regular Golt+vpuU, William Henry Chamberlin— WHERE THE NEWS ENDS—A weekly column with a moral ptrstpctivt on the ideological crises of tht day, by o n e of America's most dlstlegnisbetJ commentators...
...William E. B o h n - THE HOME FRONT—The warmth and amiability of grass-roots America through the pea of The New Leader's editor...
...I'm sure that American tabor leaders who didn't know he was a Russian would denounce him as a 'reactionary capitalist' for his 'speed-up' methods...
...Having heard thst of IM.OOO.Mt ftassians only 5,000,000 or so were Communists, 1 wanted to know if Communism was apreading under pressure of wsr...
...Liston M. OakTRENDS—A full-pagt analysis of e v e n t s as they reflect the social undercurrents of tht world Murray Everett— INSIDE AND OUT—Tht inside lowdown on the news...
...Kllis was head of the WPB Radio and Radar Division until several weeks ago when he returned to the General Motors subsidiary, Deleo Radio Corp., of which he had been general manager until he joined WPB...
...lie it not interfiled in the tpread of Communiem either within or outtide kit own coirntry...
...But, unlike the American businessman, he has no liiK.ii problems...
...what Is living and what Is dead In Marxism...
...A t e c h n i c a l philosopher, student of the scientific method, and historian of ideas, Professor Hook is b e s t known in his trenchant criticism of those who would s u b s t i t u t e totalitarian and obscurantist attitudes tor the scientific and democratic method In social thought and practice...
...From Hegel to Marx...
...Jonathan Stout— CAPITAL COMMENT—A focas on the "big" s t o r i es from the war capital...
...Books and Writers— Thought provoking reviews on the important books of...
...the new "failure of nerve" among the i n t e l l e c t u a l s , the medievalist revival in philosophy and education...
...The average plant manager in Russia earns $12,000 s yesr, with a bonus of perhaps $8,000 if he has increased production or returned a profit to the state...
...You should get to know this Russian plant manager better...
...4 . Andras— CANADIAN LETTER —On-the-spot reports from Canada on the progress of tht CCF and political doings In the Dominion...
...Prof...
...Reason, Social Myths and Democracy...
...However, there are economic layers in this 'communist' Isnd, snd oar Soviet plant manager is in the top layer...
...In many ways he thinks and acts startlingly like an American capitalist...
...Professor Hook's first monthly article will appear nest week on "The Future of Democratic Socialism...
...A. P. Lerner The Economics of Today and Tomorrow The past ten years has seen a revolution In economics comparable to the time of t i t classical e c o n o m i s t s . The New Deal theories of spending, the Nazis' financial schemes, the writings of John Maynard Keynes, combine to glva entirely new meanings t o e c o n o m i c d o c t r i n e s ond practices...
...He is particularly puxiled about the objection of the CIO to wage incentivea...
...Our Rusaian plant manager uses incentives to the hilt to get the most out of his employees...
...Solomon M. S c h w a r z— INSIDE RUSSIA—Regular penetrating, analysis of Soviet policy by a Itadiag Russian Socialist, author of Management la the Soviet Union...
...Lerner was one of the founders of the "Review of Economic Studies" In London...
...Washington and the Nation American Tycoon Admires Russian Tycoon • Recommended reading: The November issue of The American Magazine for the article by Kay Kllis on " Will Russia t'ommunise Kurope...
...While with WPB, Ellis went to the Soviet Union at the reoejaat of the latter government to lend technical assistance to the Russians in speeding up radio and radar production, -------Our Russian ally has become utterly nationalistic during this war...
...Milton Konviti— THE COMING DAY—A monthly column on the minorities probltms...
...Two New Features Sidney Hook . . . IDEAS IN ACTION ] A CRITICAL SURVEY OF THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SCENE THE NEW LEADER IS proud to announce that Sidney Hook will writ* a regular monthly a r t i c l e in t h e s e pages...
...He ia the Russian tycoon, the successful businessman, the leader of the community...
...He has contributed widely to economic journals and '« regarded as e a t of the foremott thinkers in modem economics...
...editor with Horace M. Kallen, American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow, etc...
...A . P. Lerner, formerly of the London ScfcooTof Economics, now ofTnt Maw School for Social Research, will discuss full employment, "functional finance" v ? a r i and Keynes, ate...
...A review of Sidney Hook's writings Is a review of the major dilemmas of our day: the problem of bureaucracy and po%er...
...A Russisn engineer said, "We/re not worried about that...
...John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait...
...For the p a s t t w o d e c a d e s , Sidney Hook, now Professor of Philosophy at N e w fork University, has p r o v i d e d some of the freshest social and philosophic insights into the intellectual problem* of our time...
...At present he is working on a book on the democratic foundation of education...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 41
