Volume 2, Number 1 · February 20, 1964
The Threat of History
By George Lichtheim
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by Herbert Marcuse
Beacon, 256 pp., $6.00
The 1950s are disappearing from view, almost from memory. They turn out to have been an interlude between two periods of social strain and corresponding unrest. The Cold War may be getting less dangerous, but there is no let-up politically, and as for the 'end of ideology,' we shall soon have seen the end of that illusion! Western society turns out to be less 'affluent' than we had supposed, and whatever the degree of material comfort it has secured for itself, there is a hungry colored world on its threshold: waiting to be helped, threatening to break out in destructive rebellion against the privileged minority who (in Afro-Asian eyes may already have come to include the Russians).
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