Volume 1, Number 2 · June 1, 1963
Crosland's Socialism
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The Conservative Enemy
by C.A.R. Crosland
Schocken Books, $4.95
The title of this book appears to be deliberately ambiguous. Ostensibly Mr. Crosland, as an ardent Labour Member of Parliament, means 'the Conservative enemy,' upper case—i.e., the Tory Party. But in time one begins to feel that his criticism of the Tories, while not quite perfunctory, is primarily designed to validate his credentials as a socialist and thus to liberate him to deal with his main target—'the conservative enemy,' lower case. By this he means conservatism in social thought in general and in British left-wing socialism in particular. His essential plea in the end is to his own party, and his essential argument is that, if socialism is to survive in the modern world, it must undergo a process of modernization.
Review, 1386 words
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