Whistling Past the Cemetery

Every year, according to my estimation, about seven hundred books like the two under review are published in this country. What a desperate situation we are in! Or so it would seem. Actually, I would make bold to suggest that there is something faintly resembling the shadow of a ghost of a chance of a reason to be hopeful.

First, a swift glance at the latest emission from Heilbroner. The title has nothing to do with this essay, which is concerned with the future of socialism. He describes the durability of established capitalism and devotes the rest of his effort to forecasting the chances of radical social reform, given the immovable brooding presence of that mindless monster, American capitalism. Any leftist pamphleteer of the 1920s did just as well.

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William F. Rickenbacker

Every year, according to my estimation, about seven hundred books like the two under review are published in this country. What a desperate situation we are in! Or so it would seem. Actually, I would make bold to suggest that there is something faintly resembling the shadow of a ghost of a chance of a reason to be hopeful.

First, a swift glance at the latest emission from Heilbroner. The title has nothing to do with this essay, which is concerned with the future of socialism. He describes the durability of established capitalism and devotes the rest of his effort to forecasting the chances of radical social reform, given the immovable brooding presence of that mindless monster, American capitalism. Any leftist pamphleteer of the 1920s did just as well.