The nation . ic channels sanctionedby public documents*? For years, theUnited States has been in the gripin apparently incurahle agricul-tural crisis of exactly the oppositekinel from that afflicting most of therest of the world, including the So-viet Union. We seem to he ahlc totake it in stride, in fact we grow faton it. But what is it? What arc thedeadlocked power blocs here, ac-tually? The essence of Democratic Cen-tralism is that the masses arc permit-ted to approve accomplished much of our political life today,due not to malice of the Bosses, butas a necessary consequence of the
The nation . ic channels sanctionedby public documents*? For years, theUnited States has been in the gripin apparently incurahle agricul-tural crisis of exactly the oppositekinel from that afflicting most of therest of the world, including the So-viet Union. We seem to he ahlc totake it in stride, in fact we grow faton it. But what is it? What arc thedeadlocked power blocs here, ac-tually? The essence of Democratic Cen-tralism is that the masses arc permit-ted to approve accomplished much of our political life today,due not to malice of the Bosses, butas a necessary consequence of the eco-nomic and social structure, hasmoved over into the realm occupieelby the bombing of Hiroshima andNagasaki, the intervention in Koreaand Guatemala, or Mr. Powers air-plane riele: Somehody sanctions theseacts, they dont happen by them-selves, hut how is the power focusedthat sanctions them in the firstplace? What we need is a new theory ofthe State. When Mr. Khrushchevfinished his expose of Stalins terror,. Time and Tide i London) it is not true that he could notanswer the question, What wereyou and your colleagues doing allthis time? He answered it. He said,We were afraid. But there is onequestion he could not even begin toanswer: where did the power comefrom? Having roused every organizedbody in the society except his ownpersonal secretariat against him, howelid Stalin get away with it? If youelecapitatc all the power blocs, allthe apparats. where docs your powercome from? We have an exact mirrorimage of this dilemma here at eight years this country hasbeen to all practical intents and pur-poses without a Chief Executive andwithout a national policy, internal-ly or externally. Brinks or no, itkept out of war and internally ithas never been better off. It ranitself, but how? MR. ALSOP is correct in being ableto find no crucial difference betweenthe two Presidential candidates, huthe is also right in believing thiselection to he of decisive importance,and right in c
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