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<p>Created page.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{LJtop}}<br /> I suppose the last note is a filling-in on my reactions to &#039;&#039;Dissent&#039;&#039; and the [[Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/390|&#039;&#039;Dissent&#039;&#039; meeting]]. What has to be said in favor of &#039;&#039;Dissent&#039;&#039; is that it is a magazine put out by socialists who have become—more or less consciously—deeply dissatisfied with Socialism. &#039;&#039;Dissent&#039;&#039; is their defense against an anarchist urge (rather than anarchist position) or what is the more real alternative, a return to bourgeois society and liberalism. So, there may be more than just the reluctance to engage in time-wasting correspondence behind my depression at the thought of quitting the magazine. Perhaps I feel the hope that the tolerance of &#039;&#039;Dissent&#039;&#039;’s editorial position—it is more tolerant than any Socialist magazine I can remember—is due to the fact that [[w:Irving Howe|Howe]] and [[w:Lewis A. Coser|Coser]] created it because they truly wish to let someone (X) rant in their ear. Their depression is due to the fact that they are still waiting for X. Once in a while I think Howe suspects it may be me. But this could be sheer vanity.<br /> <br /> {{LJnav}}<br /> [[Category:February 1, 1955]]</div>

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