Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR NEW READER Please begin my subscription to The New Leader immediately. I have been getting copies since your October 1 ad in the New York Times and am quite pleased. The articles...
...Further, as many whites who have been to Indonesia can testify, they are treated with the great courtesy warranted by the Eastern tradition...
...It is a gross injustice that they are denied their rights as citizens...
...Most whites in Indonesia today are not citizens and, as aliens, it is only proper that they not meddle in the situation there...
...It is evident that abstention or absence favors the government, as the party seeking the censure must obtain a majority of the entire Assembly and not just a majority of those present and voting...
...Even if one grants that we in Indonesia "discriminate against" white people, as Roche implied, we have never, for example, established segregated seating on buses...
...The Sound tried to be almost exactly the kind of book Goldman found it to be...
...But there is no discrimination in Indonesia against white people...
...The articles are short enough to be read, yet say enough to be worthwhile...
...Out of some 50 reviews, only four reviewers seemed to have any understanding of what the book was about...
...In return, I would like slacks (dacron and wool), shirts, moccasin shoes, sweaters, suits, ties, socks and belts, all of medium sizes, (waist 32, inseam 31, shirts 15-15...
...MISTAKEN COMPARISON I wholly agree with the theme of "The Abolitionist Centennial" by John P. Roche (NL, August 14-21...
...CARVINGS FOR CLOTHING I am 19 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall and weigh 140 pounds...
...Colorado Springs SAM Gadd, Secretary Colorado Springs Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO...
...But even if I had done the latter, I think Morrow has deliberately distorted my meaning and ought to get a few issues straight...
...Every student of Marx is indebted to Sidney Hook's pioneering works, especially From Hegel to Marx...
...Bell and I, and the two generations to which we belong, learned most of what we know about the young Marx and these manuscripts from Sidney Hook, an American professor of philosophy who wrote, among other books, From Hegel to Marx (1936...
...The American Negroes, on the other hand, are citizens and should be so...
...Mohammed Ansori Nawawi Waltham, Mass...
...Cambridge, Mass...
...Roche has indulged in fuzzy thinking and damaging generalization...
...It is rather as though he were to insist that the preacher's ultimate goal is the more equitable distribution of alms...
...Does Niebuhr have any idea of the complexity of the problem—or of the wounding effect of his oversimplication...
...The Constitution of the Fifth Republic specifies that "Only the votes that are favorable to the motion of censure shall be counted: The motion of censure may be adopted only by a majority of the members comprising the Assembly...
...In my review, I was primarily concerned with locating the immediate context and criticizing Fromm's interpretation of Marx, not surveying the literature on the early Marx...
...The articles include: ebony carvings of human figures and elephants, wall carvings, handbags, slippers, wallets, daggers, ivory carvings, necklaces and alligator, leopard, tiger, jaguar, deer and zebra skins...
...But I resent his blunder in the statement that "The average Southern Negro is not terrorized...
...We welcomed them as citizens but most of them rejected and often ridiculed the offer, working instead for the destruction of our independence...
...He minds his own business and hopes that trouble will avoid him...
...Discounting, or trying to discount, the several accolades, it struck me as the best informed, most succinct and accurately written comment on the phenomenon of Bop...
...Before Indonesia achieved independence, white men there were more like Southern whites in the United States...
...His complaint seems to boil down to the variety of "why didn't you write a different article...
...Certainly, he realizes that there is no similarity between Negroes in the South and white men in Indonesia...
...P. Merle Black UNDERSTANDING BE-BOP I was very much moved by Albert Goldman's "On Music" column in the October 2 issue which dealt with the life of Charlie Parker and my book on Bird, The Sound...
...Furthermore, Fromm's central concern is alienation and as Bell himself has noted, the term "alienation" does not occur once in Hook's study...
...My address is 4 Bleiye Lane, Lagos, Nigeria...
...Herald is in error when he says "deputies may vote for a censure motion against Debre or, by abstaining, insure his defeat...
...He certainly isn't interested in the substance of my review, for he fails to mention a single issue where he disagrees with my criticism of Fromm...
...Her work, too, testifies to her original debt to Hook...
...I suggest that Roche's statement be amended to read, "The average Southern Negro is simply no more heroic than the average African in, say, Angola or South Africa...
...What I find most deplorable about Morrow's peevish letter is that it represents an attitude of l'ancien régime which only stifles a fresh critical evaluation of Marxism...
...Among the writers on the young Marx that Bernstein does mention is Raya Dunayevskaya who, I am quite sure, would correct the reviewer's erroneous assumption that she received her training in Europe...
...On another tack: My congratulations to August Heckscher for his thoughtful remarks in "Leisure in America" (same issue...
...I would like to make friends with some people in your country, and want to exchange African articles for American products...
...In style it was imaginative, exciting, and yet still accurate...
...New Hyde Park, N. Y. Felix Morrow Richard J. Bernstein replies: It is difficult to know precisely what is troubling Felix Morrow...
...he is simply no more heroic than the average white in, say, Indonesia...
...Most of the reviews said it was another jazz novel about narcotics addiction...
...Indeed, I think thé second part of the sentence may well be omitted...
...New York City Ben Protter 'PLACE AUX JEUNES' The review of Erich Fromm's book on the young Marx ("Fromm's Concept of Marx," NL, October 2), by Richard J. Bernstein, a no doubt young assistant professor of philosophy, tells us that "with the notable exception of Daniel Bell," no American has dealt with Marx's early philosophical manuscripts...
...The reference to Bell occurs in the context of noting some of the scholars who have dealt explicitly with the 1844 Manuscripts...
...This, by the way, is the sort of thing the leaders of labor—those apparently outside the nexus of Niebuhr's fears—are thinking very strenuously about...
...It seems to me that if American letters is to withstand the growing pressures of Madison Avenue, television, bad American movies, and the discount-house, mass-consumer, don'tthink trend of our society, it will be because of the support rallied by publications like The New Leader...
...whatever he may think as he reads the newspapers, he lies low...
...Ross Russell ABSTENTION IN FRANCE A point of order concerning George W. Herald's "Politics in the Elysée" (NL, October 16...
...Furthermore, if Niebuhr really believes that "Labor's ultimate goal is the equitable distribution of the products of the machine," he is dim-sighted indeed about the broad concerns of organized labor in America today...
...How anyone can review this subject and fail to mention Hook's work is explainable only by the slogan place aux jeunes...
...In fact, even after independence the superiority complex of the whites persisted...
...I am sure that Bell will join me in correcting Bernstein...
...Lagos, Nigeria Ioseph B. Dosumu LABOR TODAY Reinhold Niebuhr's piece, "The New Feudalism" (NL, August 28) is, for a theologian, a short trot down a thorny by-path...
...These four were Goldman, Whitney Balliert (New Yorker), Wilder Hobson (Newsweek) and Harlan Ellison (Rogue...
...But the fact is that Hook barely treats the Manuscripts, which have received so much attention recently and after all are the basis of Fromm's discussion...
...He has inherited with his culture a built-in survival mechanism...
...He is most particularly country-parsonish in his assertion that "featherbedding" has been organized labor's response to automation...
...San Marcos, Calif...
...I must say that the The New Leader is the last place that I expected to see this kind of parvenu writing...
Vol. 44 • November 1961 • No. 37
