Dear Editor
Dear Editor Woodcock George Woodcock's travelogue, "Australia: Mirage and Reality" (NL, June 25), was a very pleasant, informative description of a now oft-mentioned country. During four months of...
...In this darkness, Brockway has lighted a candle of hope...
...The glorious reward for Brockway and for us has now come...
...New York City Felix Morrow Spies I found Ray Alan's expose of "Britain's Old Spy Network" (NL, June 25) very readable yet terribly unconvincing...
...I'd love to see more articles or travelogues from enigmatic regions: Indonesia, Finland, Paraguay, British Columbia, the Yukon...
...But unless Alan regards such opposition as inherently Communistic, he must now provide us with some reason to accept his claim that the government's attitudes in these matters were in fact shaped by traitors...
...capitalism in particular, not in the dead past but today, creates unorganized and disorganized armies of the unemployed in order to drive wages down and keep workers out of unions...
...Boston Philip Carpenter Correction John V. Craven's letter ("Dear Editor," NL, June 25) on Herbert Inhaber's article, "How Rich Should the Rich Be...
...I doubt it...
...Does it then follow, however, that foreign agents have inspired each policy Ray Alan or I might dislike...
...In the absence of such evidence—and he seems to have none—Alan is guilty of reasoning backward from effects to causes, rather like the pious bishop who claimed that the white spots on the backs of rabbits had been put there by the Lord to make them easier for hunters to shoot...
...With extraordinary brilliance, Brockway has culled a series of passages from Marx' Capital and shown that they express the present ideas of big capital in America...
...Keep up the good work...
...The trade union movement here and in Europe is disarmed by its sodden failure to understand this process...
...More accurately, of course, I mean the trade union leadership...
...Big capital is armed with this understanding of the living part of Marx...
...When Brockway concludes that whatever will happen will be our doing, each of us chooses his place in making the future...
...Princeton John Gutman Brockway I have regularly read George P. Brockway's column on economics, "The Dismal Science"—albeit without great enthusiasm, but recognizing it as a serious attempt to educate himself and then us in a very difficult subject...
...NL, April 16), appeared with a typographical error...
...It would appear that England does indeed have the unfortunate distinction of producing more Soviet agents than most, if not all, of its allies...
...But some of us are better placed to affect the future, and it is in this sense that the trade union leadership bears responsibility for the terrible decline of the labor movement...
...During four months of my own travels in Europe in 1981, the cheery, garrulous Australians were always fascinating to talk to...
...I refer to his "Civility and Labor Relations" in your June 25 issue...
...The penultimate sentence of the third paragraph should have read: "Surely the solution suggested by Inhaber—to require that the top 3 per cent of the wealthy conform to a lognormally distributed after-tax income—not only assumes that a 'natural' law is a reality but amounts to one of the mildest 'attacks' on social inequality one could imagine...
...Britain was surely unwise in opposing the Common Market, the Camp David agreement, and the Grenada action...
...Brockway has there managed in a few paragraphs to give us an understanding of the quite deliberate way in which capitalism in general, and U.S...
...The living part of Marx—his profound grasp of the process of capitalist accumulation—is thus as it were rescued by Brockway, while he happily and correctly consigns the rest of Marxism to the grave it has dug for itself in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and the dreary wastes of Eastern Europe...
Vol. 67 • August 1984 • No. 14
