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The Twilight of Capitalism By Michael Harrington

Simon & Schuster, 446 pp., $10.95 It is an occupational disease on the Left to seize on every crisis of “capitalism” as an expression of underlying contradictions which will eventually consume it. Predictably, the recent recession brought out a rash of such prophecies, among them Michael Harrington’s new book.